(Ha'aretz) - Aluf Benn The "road map" for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict died last Thursday in the office of Condoleezza Rice in the White House, during a conversation with the prime minister's bureau chief Dov Weisglass. In its place, the "Bush vision" [as outlined on June 24, 2002] has returned to diplomatic discourse as the political goal of Israel and the U.S. The U.S. administration is partner to the Israeli assessment that there is nobody to talk to on the Palestinian side. The political process has been frozen until the departure of Arafat. Sharon spoke of several months of waiting, during which he will try to implement the road map, before he goes over to unilateral disengagement. But the waiting period has been drastically shortened, and Washington is now willing to hear about disengagement steps, on condition that they suit the Bush vision.
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