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Kindgo
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Israel Threatens to Launch 'Crushing Offensive'

June 22, 2002 11:25 AM ET
By Danielle Haas

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel threatened on Saturday to launch a "crushing offensive" and impose an indefinite reoccupation of Palestinian areas unless suicide bombing and shooting attacks against Israelis stopped.

"We have to take much more massive action than we have until now. If this means entering the territories and staying there for a long time then we will have to consider it," Amos Yaron, director general of the Defense Ministry, told Israel Radio, describing the potential action as a "crushing offensive."

A five-week reoccupation of Palestinian towns, cities and camps across the West Bank in April and early May led to the arrest of hundreds of Palestinians who Israel says are part of a "terrorist infrastructure."

... European Union leaders gathered in Spain on Saturday back an early international peace conference on the Middle East which should set a "well-defined timescale" for a political solution, according to a draft statement obtained by Reuters.
The statement, due to be approved by the 15 leaders on Saturday after a two-day summit in Seville, also condemns Palestinian suicide attacks while urging Israel to halt its military operations in the occupied territories.

... U.S. officials said the recent violence had intensified debate on future policy to be adopted toward the Palestinians.

They said pro-Israel conservatives in the White House close to Bush had stiffened their opposition to an interim Palestinian state suggested by Secretary of State Colin Powell.

"They are saying, 'Why should [we] be do[ing] anything for Arafat now?'," said a U.S. official who asked not to be named.

'URGENT NEED FOR POLITICAL ACTION'

In Seville, EU leaders said in the draft text that a Middle East meeting "should reaffirm the parameters of the political solution and establish a realistic and well-defined timescale."

"There is an urgent need for political action by the whole international community," they said, adding that Israeli and Palestinian leaders could not find a solution on their own...

http://www.reuters.com/news_article...StoryID=1121278

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020621/1/2zsgn.html

Saturday June 22, 8:50 AM
EU leaders to call for Palestinian state based on 1967 borders

European Union leaders, deeply concerned by the escalation of unrest in the Middle East, want a quick return to talks and the establishment of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, diplomatic sources said.

Leaders of the 15-nation bloc, meeting for a two-day summit in this southern city, will issue a call for a Palestinian state when they end talks Saturday on the grounds that it would ensure security for both sides within recognized borders.

The sources said that during discussions on the Middle East on Saturday, the leaders had reiterated the EU's support for proposals to quickly call an international conference involving the parties, the United States, the United Nations, the EU and Russia -- the so-called Quartet -- and other Arab and involved states.

The EU would also offer economic aid to peace-building, including the reconstruction of the Palestinian economy, and help in monitoring peace.

EU leaders, who opposed terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well Israeli military operations in the occupied territories, welcomed pledges by the Palestinian Authorities to reform their security apparatus.

Earlier Friday, the EU's foreign policy chief had said the summit would call for a new political initiative in the Middle East to quell escalating violence.

"The message from the Europeans will be that we need a new political push, which might be an international conference or something else," Javier Solana, EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, said on arriving at the summit in this southern Spanish city.

Solana further said, "What form this takes is not that important," he said. "The important thing is that there be a political push, a perspective for getting out of the terrible situation in which we are now." (( ))

As the Israeli army pressed its occupation of West Bank cities in response to two suicide bombings that claimed 26 Israeli lives, Solana said the summit here would probably adopt a formal declaration on the Middle East.

Solana said he had conferred by telephone Thursday with US Secretary of State Colin Powell on a speech to be given by President George W. Bush on the Middle East peace process, a speech that had been put on hold after the latest suicide bombings.

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my personal comments: ladies & gents!! this is so exciting ~ I can hardly breathe!!

do you realize how LATE the hour is -- in which we live!!!????

Remember -- for born again, Jesus loving, rapture watching Christians -- "that day will not overtake us like a thief"!! It will come as a HUGE surprise to the rest of the world -- but we KNOW what to expect!!

Isn't this EXCITING!!!!!?????

'scuze me ~ gotta' dance a little "jig" here!!
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God bless,
Kindgo

Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.

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