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Thursday, April 15, 2004
alestinians concerned
bout Bush’s support
f Sharon pullout plan
By Mohammed
Daraghmeh
|the associated press
RAMALLAH, West Bank
Palestinians and Israeli hard-
irs rejected statements by
Pitsident Bush on Wednesday
suggesting Israel would not
tia e to give up some key West
Bank settlements and ruling out
die right of Palestinian refugees
1 return to Israel.
I Bush spoke after meeting
Isaeli Prime Minister Ariel
S aron in Washington, where
$ aron presented his plan for an
Isaeli withdrawal from all of
■ Gaza Strip, along with a
■aller pullback in the West
Ink.
| The plan faces a referendum
o members of Sharon’s Likud
Prty on May 2, and Sharon
bickers hoped Bush’s statement
would persuade skeptical voters
ill “disengagement” plan is
^ J rthwhile.
I Likud Cabinet minister Tsipi
1 mi, who had expressed
d ubts about the pullout, said
sle was somewhat reassured by
I sh's pledges. “I’m not ecstat
ic she told Israel TV. “I’m
] prehensive regarding the
; icess, but I will support it if
i really get these things.”
■ Cabinet minister Uzi Landau,
I iding the Likud campaign
i ainst the Sharon initiative,
111 the Bush speech yielded “a
t n harvest.” He called on other
J aid Cabinet ministers to join
^drive “to stop this bad initia-
le,"setting a planning meeting
his allies for Thursday.
■ Hard-liners oppose evacuat-
k’settlements in principle, and
an against Sharon’s unilateral
lllback plan, calling it a
I ward for terrorism” that will
|urmore violence.
Bush supports Sharon’s pullout plan
President Bush endorsed Israel’s
Gaza pullout plan and said West
Bank borders must take into
account some Israeli settlements.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed
Qureia warned that will destroy
peace efforts. Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon wants to
keep five main settlement blocs.
Settlements
□ Israeli I 1 Palestinian
■ Israeli settlements to be kept
I
Bush said a peace agreement
must take into account realities
that have developed in the
decades since Israel captured the
West Bank. Bush said the exis
tence of Israeli population cen
ters — referring to settlements
— must be taken into account.
It was the first time a U.S.
president had come that close to
legitimizing Jewish settlements
in the West Bank, which were
traditionally denounced as
“obstacles to peace” in previous
administrations.
Palestinians demand a state
in all the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, with the removal of all
Israeli settlements.
Bush also said the problem of
Palestinian refugees must be
solved in the framework of a
Palestinian state, rebuffing a key
Palestinian demand of right of
return of the refugees and their
descendants to their original
homes in Israel.
Minutes after Bush spoke,
Palestinian Prime Minister
Ahmed Qureia harshly criticized
the president’s stand. “He is the
first president who has legit
imized the settlements in the
Palestinian territories when he
said that there will be no return
to the borders of 1967,” Qureia
said. “We as Palestinians reject
that, we cannot accept that, we
reject it and we refuse it.”
Palestinian Cabinet minister
Saeb Erekat also dismissed
Bush’s statement. “This is like
someone giving a part of Texas’
land to China,” he told The
Associated Press. He said that
over the years, U.S. administra
tions have assured the
Palestinians that issues like bor
ders and settlements would be
handled in negotiations.
“If Israel wants to make
peace, it must talk to the
Palestinian leadership,”
Erekat said.
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