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opinion:
our view
Bush too slow in
Israel
President Bush is not making enough of an effort to help broker
some sort of peace in Israel as bombs continue to burst and
Israeli tanks continue to patrol West Bank cities.
Bush urged Israel
to pull out of the West Bank towns it has taken control of
in its recent broad offensive. In a speech Thursday morning,
Bush announced that he is sending Secretary of State Colin
Powell to the region in hopes of meeting with Yasser Arafat
in his Israeli-held, Ramallah compound.
But Bush has been giving too many mixed signals and is not
standing firm. According to the Associated Press Bush, said
only five days ago that he defends Israel's incursion and
occupation of Arafat's compound but at the same time his administration
was backing a United Nations resolution calling on Israel
to withdraw its troops.
Bush needs to stop sending these mixed signals and lay out
a concrete plan on how his administration is going to help
create peace in the Middle East.
Hemming and hawing is merely allowing other Middle East countries,
like Iraq, Iran and Syria, to lick their chops and wait to
make a move to assist in the destruction of the State of Israel.
We feel that President Bush needs to make a much more concerted
effort -- whether or not that entails taking sides -- to bring
about a cease-fire and open up the peace-talks table yet again.
Violence and conflict in the Middle East does have an effect
on the United States, even if average citizens do not realize
it. The effects may be as small as rising gas prices or as
tragic as future terrorist attacks against the United States
or its interests.
We think that President Bush's actions or lack of action in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are not enough and that it
is time for some real moves to be made by the United States.
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