The Speech that was Never Delivered

(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn - The postponement of President Bush's address on the Middle East provides an excellent opportunity for shelving the speech altogether. The details that have leaked out on its content assign the address a distinguished place on the junk-pile of previous American plans. When Secretary of State Powell raised the idea of a temporary Palestinian state without first examining the notion's meaning, legal experts in both the State Department and the White House were caught completely off guard. The diplomatic moves are light-years removed from the reality in the field. The chief result of the U.S. initiative was that Israel's determination to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield has been intensified.


2002-06-21 00:00:00

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