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RAMALLAH, West Bank - President Bush, summing up meetings with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, said Thursday that a peace accord will require “painful political concessions” by each. Resolving the status of Jerusalem will be hard, he said, and he called for the end of the “occupation” of Arab land by the Israeli military.



“Now is the time to make difficult choices,” Bush said after a first-ever visit to the Palestinian territories, which followed separate meetings with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem the day before.



Bush is in the Mideast for eight days, trying to bolster his goal of achieving a long-elusive peace agreement by the end of his presidency in a year. Speaking at his hotel in Jerusalem, he said again that he thinks that is possible.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Got a little hint for everybody, Israel is never pulling back to the 67 borders without being militarily forced to do so and they shouldn't.

Close the refugee camps in their territory. Make a one time offer of limited self rule to selected areas of the territories, specifically not including Old Jerusalem, give the Palestinains a month or two to organize and hold a referendum then when it fails integrate the territories into Israel and anyone unwilling to accept Israeli rule should be shown to a border. Treat all further terrorist acts as criminal acts and punish co conspirators harshly. Let all their neghbors know that smuggling of weapons and explosives is an act of war and will be responded to as such.

A bunch of dead palestinians later, peace.

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ORIGINAL: Level

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RAMALLAH, West Bank - President Bush, summing up meetings with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, said Thursday that a peace accord will require “painful political concessions” by each. Resolving the status of Jerusalem will be hard, he said, and he called for the end of the “occupation” of Arab land by the Israeli military.



“Now is the time to make difficult choices,” Bush said after a first-ever visit to the Palestinian territories, which followed separate meetings with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem the day before.



Bush is in the Mideast for eight days, trying to bolster his goal of achieving a long-elusive peace agreement by the end of his presidency in a year. Speaking at his hotel in Jerusalem, he said again that he thinks that is possible.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22587081

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

If only he'd put the same commitment into this from the off - this after all is the source of 90% of "terrorism" - as he did towards removing stability a little further east and making the whole thing worse.

As for possible judgement day scenarios - perhaps a little far fetched? although I'll grant, there are some very odd people within religions of all sorts.

Personally I'd welcome a judgement day - a Christian one even, though I'm far from being Christian at all - an apostate in fact who should be cast into the pit of whatever it is (suplhur?) by their standards. Yet, I am strongly of the opinion that should such an event occur I'd more than likely be safe, and watching millions of so called Christians tumbling into said pit. Religiosity saves none.

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