[Jerusalem Post] Gil Hoffman - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday not to call the November meeting in Washington a "peace conference." He referred to it instead as a "short international meeting intended to give international encouragement to the process that we initiated with the Palestinians." "We don't need to build exaggerated expectations that tomorrow there will be an accord," Olmert said. Olmert conditioned any Israeli withdrawal from territory in the West Bank on the Palestinians keeping all their commitments in the road map, which would be implemented without skipping its stages. "I am not talking about withdrawing from all of the territories but rather from specific territories that will be under Palestinian control," Olmert said.
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