Source: Jerusalem Watchman
Mar 14, 2008
So, United States’ Middle East “peace progress monitor” General William Fraser is set to conduct a meeting Friday at which an assessment will be made of how Israel and the so-called Palestinians are implementing the first stage in the Quartet’s “Road Map.”
In this first stage, Israel is meant to halt all building or expanding of Jewish communities in Samaria and Judea, dismantle so-called illegal outposts and remove security checkpoints in those central parts of its historic homeland so as to “ease life” for the Arabs in the areas under Palestinian Authority (PA) control.
For its part, the PA is to have clamped down on terrorism and violence against Israelis by arresting terrorists and destroying their infrastructure.
Both parties agreed at the Annapolis Conference last November to start work on implementing their commitments.
More seriously Israel, under immense pressure from US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, agreed to grant the US the right to judge Israel’s performance and coerce the Jewish state into complying with Washington’s - and the world’s - expectations.
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