(National Post-Canada) Daniel Pipes - Last April, the President delivered a major address that backed Israel and condemned Arafat. In June 2002, he said, "When the Palestinian people have new leaders, new institutions and new security arrangements with their neighbors, the United States of America will support the creation of a Palestinian state." Three months later, the State Department unveiled something it called the "concrete, three-phase implementation road map." This road map can plan on a Palestinian state by 2005 by dispensing with Bush's requirements of the PA and instead requesting only token assurances from it. This duality leads to heartburn on all sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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