Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush veto on Middle East talks: "Bush veto on Middle East talks

Humiliating rebuff for Blair initiative

Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
Saturday October 5, 2002
The Guardian

Tony Blair's drive for Middle East peace talks has suffered an embarrassing setback at the hands of the US president, George Bush, only days after the prime minister flagged up his plan at the Labour party conference in Blackpool.
Mr Blair is pushing for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks, backed by an international conference, before the end the year. He has told colleagues that, with war looming in Iraq, he regards it as essential to deal with one of the main causes of Arab resentment against the west.
But the Guardian has learnt that Mr Bush has blocked the initiative and has made it clear to Mr Blair that he does not want such talks to be held in the near future. "
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Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | We can teach Bush what not to do in the Middle East: "We can teach Bush what not to do in the Middle East

British mistakes 80 years ago should be a warning to the US today

Martin Woollacott
Friday October 11, 2002
The Guardian "
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Britain to push for 'final' Middle East talks this year: "Britain to push for 'final' Middle East talks this year

Nicholas Watt, political correspondent
Wednesday October 2, 2002
The Guardian

Britain is to press for 'final status' negotiations on Israel and the Palestinian territories to be revived by the end of the year in an attempt to resolve the 54-year-old dispute, Tony Blair said yesterday.
Amid signs that Washington is ready to put pressure on Israel, the prime minister said Britain was prepared to play a leading role in the talks which should lead to the creation of a 'viable Palestinian state'. "
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Economist.com | Yasser Arafat: "The ruins of peace

Sep 27th 2002
From The Economist Global Agenda

Israel has claimed its siege of Yasser Arafat’s compound is to prevent the Palestinians launching terrorist attacks in the run up to an American-led invasion of Iraq. But some think it is a conspiracy to derail the reforms demanded by America and others before granting a Palestinian state. Whatever the reason, the death toll is rising"
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Ha'aretz - Article: "Last Update: 14/05/2002 04:30

Powell: Sharon 'committed' to creation of Palestinian state

By Ha'aretz Service and agencies

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had vowed that he was still 'committed' to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel as part of a peace deal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Speaking en route to a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Iceland, Powell said that he had spoken to Sharon earlier in the day and the prime minister 'reaffirmed to me that he remains committed to moving forward to achieve that vision that I think most people have of a Palestinian state.' "
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sharon loses key vote to rightwing: "Sharon loses key vote to rightwing

Likud opts to reject forever creation of state for Palestinians

Suzanne Goldenberg in Jerusalem and Patrick Wintour
Monday May 13, 2002
The Guardian

Ariel Sharon's worst nightmare came to life in a Tel Aviv auditorium last night when the Israeli prime minister was outflanked by the rightwing of his Likud Party, losing a crucial vote to a powerful challenger, Binyamin Netanyahu.
After hours of rancorous debate, the central committee of the Likud party voted overwhelmingly to reject forever a Palestinian state 'west of the Jordan river', despite Mr Sharon's arguments that it would set it at loggerheads with Washington, which has made Palestinian statehood one of the main planks of it Middle East peace initiative. "
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How the truce was broken: "How the truce was broken Friday August 22, 2003"
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