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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25117-2005Apr4.html
Israel Sees Bush Commitment
(AP/Washington Post) Barry Schweid - Prime Minister Sharon is counting on President Bush to keep his commitment that Israel can retain several large Jewish towns near Jerusalem as part of a peace accord with the Palestinians, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday. On a Sharon visit to Washington a year ago Bush voiced his support for Israel retaining Maale Adumim and a few other Jewish population centers near Jerusalem in any peace accord with the Palestinians. The president said the demographic situation in that part of the West Bank had changed.