Bush Raises Glimmer of Hope in Mideast Conflict
A glimmer of hope dawned in the Middle East on Friday after President Bush called for a halt to Israel's drive into the West Bank and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat endorsed his statement. Bush ordered Secretary of State Colin Powell to go to the region to revive efforts to achieve a cease-fire. :: This Reuters report submitted for your covenant with many & battle for Jerusalem files. In his statement, Bush noted that, "The Chairman of the Palestinian Authority has not consistently opposed or confronted terrorists. At Oslo and elsewhere, Chairman Arafat renounced terror as an instrument of his cause, and he agreed to control it. He's not done so," so I wonder why the U.S. still insists that it is Arafat that Irael must make peace with? If evidence of Arafat's support for terrorism is strong, and it's clear that Arafat has made a strategic choice to support terrorism, why does the U.S. continue to support him as a peace partner for Israel?