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To: LarryM
I don't know what speech YOU were listening to, but to me it was just this side of an ultimatum to the Palestinians. Most of the Israelis sure seem happy with it.
26 posted on 06/24/2002 2:09:12 PM PDT by hchutch
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To: hchutch
This certainly was not the speech that the major media said it would be. It sounded more like "get rid of Arafat & Hamas, & then we'll start talking.

Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership

I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders

If the Palestinian people actively pursue these goals, America and the world will actively support their efforts

And when the Palestinian people have new leaders, new institutions and new security arrangements with their neighbors, the United States of America will support the creation of a Palestinian state whose borders and certain aspects of its sovereignty will be provisional until resolved

help the Palestinians organize and monitor fair, multi-party local elections by the end of the year, with national elections to follow.

reforms in Palestinian finances, encouraging transparency and independent auditing

Today, Palestinian authorities are encouraging, not opposing, terrorism. This is unacceptable. And the United States will not support the establishment of a Palestinian state until its leaders engage in a sustained fight against the terrorists and dismantle their infrastructure

Every leader actually committed to peace will end incitement to violence in official media, and publicly denounce homicide bombings. Every nation actually committed to peace will stop the flow of money, equipment and recruits to terrorist groups seeking the destruction of Israel -- including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. Every nation actually committed to peace must block the shipment of Iranian supplies to these groups, and oppose regimes that promote terror, like Iraq. And Syria must choose the right side in the war on terror by closing terrorist camps and expelling terrorist organizations.

The Palestinian Authority has rejected your offer at hand, and trafficked with terrorists

56 posted on 06/24/2002 2:34:19 PM PDT by sanchmo
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