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Bush Statehood Call on Friday Doesn't Faze Israel
(Jerusalem Post) - Dan Izenberg The Israeli government formally welcomed President Bush's announcement that the road map on Middle East peace would be presented to Israel and the Palestinians after the confirmation of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian prime minister. "We see eye to eye with President Bush," Yonatan Peled, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Saturday. "We share his vision and we are of the conviction that, once there is a Palestinian prime minister with real powers who will begin fighting to stop terror, Israel will be willing to begin discussing a solution." Sources expressed satisfaction that in his speech Friday, Bush put the onus on the Palestinian Authority to undergo reform and abandon terrorism. Israel also appreciates the U.S. leader's need to help his beleaguered European ally, Tony Blair, on the eve of a prospective war against Iraq.