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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom rejected Tuesday a proposal by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Israel dismantle West Bank outposts and release "political prisoners" as a goodwill gesture to the new Palestinian leadership... UK's Straw to hold talks on British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was due in the region Wednesday.
The Russians are trying to explain to Sharon that he needs to encourage the new Palestinian leadership, who've all turned over a new leaf:
Yasser Arafat's three top successors vowed on Tuesday to follow in his footsteps by refusing to compromise on the right of return for all refugees and insisting on the establishment of a Palestinian state on the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Jerusalem as its capital... "We will follow in the path of the late leader Yasser Arafat, and we will work toward fulfilling his dream," Abbas told the council.
Arafat's dream, of course, was something other than a peaceful Israel and Palestine living side-by-side.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom rejected Tuesday a proposal by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Israel dismantle West Bank outposts and release "political prisoners" as a goodwill gesture to the new Palestinian leadership... UK's Straw to hold talks on British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was due in the region Wednesday.
The Russians are trying to explain to Sharon that he needs to encourage the new Palestinian leadership, who've all turned over a new leaf:
Yasser Arafat's three top successors vowed on Tuesday to follow in his footsteps by refusing to compromise on the right of return for all refugees and insisting on the establishment of a Palestinian state on the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Jerusalem as its capital... "We will follow in the path of the late leader Yasser Arafat, and we will work toward fulfilling his dream," Abbas told the council.
Arafat's dream, of course, was something other than a peaceful Israel and Palestine living side-by-side.
