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Bush: I will bring peace to Holy Land


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
December 20, 2004

Striking a messianic note, US President George W. Bush Sunday declared he would bring peace to the Holy Land during his second term.

Speaking to Israel’s Yediot Ahronot daily, Bush said he is “convinced that, during this term, I will manage to bring peace.”

Addressing Israelis in general, the president said, “I want you to know that I am going to invest a lot of time and a lot of creative thinking so that there will finally be peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”

Bush praised Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for understanding how achievable peace is and initiating his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and northern Samaria of their Jews.

“It is very important that the Palestinians also understand that peace is not something that is arrived at through words, but through deeds,” the president noted.

But the vision of peace shared by Bush and Sharon may be more unattainable than they think.

Speaking from Oman Saturday while on a money-begging tour of the Gulf States, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas said the “Palestinians” would make no concessions on their demand to flood Israel with millions of Arab “refugees.”

Echoing the PA presidential frontrunner, Zakariya al-Agha, head of the PLO's Refugees Department, said the so-called “right of return” was “a red line for the Palestinian leadership that can't be trespassed.”

Abbas - widely hailed in the West as a moderate - has exerted considerable energy of late fighting for the right to demographically annihilate the Jewish state.

Meanwhile, the “Palestinian” leader’s recent calls to downgrade the violence targeting Israel’s Jews have been rejected by the various terror groups.

“The blessed intifada will continue, both on its military and popular levels. No one, however senior or at whatever level — Palestinian, Arab or international — will be able to stop it,” a masked spokesman from Abbas’s own Fatah organization told reporters in Gaza.

During his brief stint as PA prime minister in 2003, Abbas similarly called on the terrorists to stop using guns and bombs in their attacks against Israelis.

After being rebuffed by the terror groups, Abbas insisted he had no intention of honoring the PA’s Oslo Accords obligation to forcibly disarm and dismantle them.

The Jerusalem Post quoted “Palestinian” political analyst al-Masri as saying Israel and the US were making a mistake by assuming the Palestinian Arabs had changed following the death of Yasser Arafat.

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