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Trafield
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Boy, these are sure some interesting developments! Things are coming together so quickly!
Another article I read on this story (trying to find it...) said that Bush's plan entails Israel giving up land it currently owns for the Palestinian State. This is not good news when we are about to go to war! If Bush continues to go against God's covenant concerning the Promised Land, then America may have to pay the price!
Pray that president Bush quickly realizes the folly of this plan and stops trying to move the immoveable rock!
What will be real interesting is to see what Bush's plan reveals about Jerusalem and specifically the Temple Mount area.
"I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling...On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered agains her, I will make Jerusalem an immoveable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injur themselves."
Zechariah 12:2-3
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Kindgo
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81072,00.html
Friday, March 14, 2003
WASHINGTON — Once a new Palestinian prime minister is appointed to a position of "real authority" and Israelis end their settlement activity in occupied territories, the United States is prepared to implement a road map to peace that has been in the works for nearly a year, President Bush said Friday.
"The new Palestinian prime minister must hold a position of real authority; we expect that such a Palestinian prime minister will be confirmed soon. Immediately upon confirmation, the road map for peace will be given to the Palestinians and Israelis," Bush said in a Rose Garden announcement.
Refusing questions from reporters, the president's brief message was meant not only to set up objectives for the parties in the Mideast to meet but to appease other nations critical in an impending war against Iraq.
At the United Nations, France in particular has been extremely critical of the Bush administration's policy on Iraq, claiming that the Israel-Palestinian issue was more dangerous than Iraq.
The time has come to move beyond entrenched positions and to take concrete actions to achieve peace," Bush said, adding that he is personally committed to implementing the road map.
"There is no new ground here, but it is, in effect, a diplomatic outreach to the Europeans as well as to the Arab states on the eve of war," said Marc Ginsberg, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Ginsberg said that the president's setting down a marker on the prime minister's appointment and sending a signal to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat accomplishes several functions.
"Just this last week when the Palestinian legislative council designated an office of the prime minister, it was quite clear that the White House sent signals that unless Arafat was willing to cede powers of security and foreign policy, this prime minister [post] was worth nothing more than the paper it was printed on," Ginsberg said.
At the same time, however, Ginsberg said the comments were significant because they are timed to push Security Council members who have expressed misgivings about the delay in implementation of a road map laid out by the president last June and being worked on by Russia, members of the European Union and the United Nations.
Ginsberg said it also sends a signal to Arab states that want the United States to push Israel to stop settlement activity in the occupied territories.
Bush specifically mentioned the cessation of settlements as a precursor to implementing the road map.
"The government of Israel, as the terror threat is removed and security improves, must take concrete steps to support the emergence of a viable and credible Palestinian state and to work as quickly as possible toward a final status agreement. As progress is made toward peace, settlement activity in the occupied territories must end," Bush said.
Secretary of State Colin Powell joined Bush by his side during the comments. Powell has been working to develop the formula for peace, which includes the creation of a Palestinian state by the year 2005, carved out of land that Israel has held for more than 35 years.
Fox News' Teri Schultz contributed to this report.
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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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