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April 15, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420354461

White House Insists Aim is to Jump-Start Peace Process

(Financial Times-UK) Guy Dinmore and James Harding - President Bush was seeking to jump-start the "road map" process for peace, with the eventual goal of establishing a Palestinian state, by backing Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, senior administration officials said on Wednesday. They insisted that there was nothing new in U.S. policy in affirming that Palestinian refugees should give up their right of return to Israel, or that Israel should retain some settlements established after the 1967 war in the West Bank. "That's history, not news," one senior official said repeatedly. "It's what everyone in the region knows."

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