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Source: http://www.projo.com/ap/ne/1088132520.htm
Senate Joins House in Supporting Bush Position on Israeli Pullout from Gaza
(AP/Providence Journal) The Senate voted Thursday to embrace President Bush's support of Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's plan to abandon his country's Gaza Strip settlements. By 95-3, senators approved nonbinding language that also said "it is unrealistic" for any peace settlement between Israel and Palestinians to require Israel to return to the borders that existed before the 1967 Mideast war. In addition, the resolution said a Palestinian state would have to be part of a "just, fair, and realistic framework" for peace - with Palestinian refugees settling there, not in Israel. Voting against the resolution were Sens. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.; James Jeffords, I-Vt.; and John Sununu, R-N.H. Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and John Kerry, D-Mass., did not vote.