All of these are amenable to progress, because they don't have the very symbolic value that the Jerusalem issue has. I'm not at all saying that we should forget about the Jerusalem issue ... but there is no need to get everything stalled until we finish that issue. |
comes with a lot of baggage. I hope he throws his baggage away before he really takes the reins of government in Israel. |
declare free and open public elections within 60 days. |
He has not only declared a cease-fire that is unconditional and immediate and effective, but he has really in the last 48 hours ... done everything possible to make it stick by bringing all his military leaders together, making instructions, by re-deploying whatever he can short of moving people because the Israelis are still making it impossible for his forces to move from one place to the other. He is really doing his best, |
He has not only declared a cease-fire that is unconditional and immediate and effective, but he has really, in the last 48 hours, done everything possible to make it stick by bringing all his military leaders together, making instructions; by redeploying whatever he can, short of moving people, because the Israelis are still making it impossible for his forces to move from one place to the other. He is really doing his best, |
He told me he meant everything he said in his speech. |
I think he'll have to demonstrate to people two things. One, that he seriously means business when he says he wants to stop all fire, but that he will continue very ardently, with the help of Mr. Powell and the United States and Europe, to implement the Mitchell plan that promises to freeze all settlement activities, implement all unimplemented parts of the peace process, and move towards a negotiated settlement on a permanent basis, |
I think he'll have to demonstrate to people two things. One, that he seriously means business when he says he wants to stop all fire, but that he will continue very ardently, with the help of Mr. Powell and the United States and Europe, to implement the Mitchell plan that promises to freeze all settlement activities, implement all unimplemented parts of the peace process, and move towards a negotiated settlement on a permanent basis. |
I'm not saying definitively, but I think that's the general trend |
If he is elected, and if he continues to push the same backward and regressive ideas he was pushing during his campaign, I do not see how this peace process can go forward. |
Israel is keeping Palestinians trapped in a revolving door of reoccupation, |
It does not look like he is the man who would push the peace process forward. He might, and, in fact, he looks like the man who is going to destabilize our area, |
It does not look like he is the man who would push the peace process forward. He might, and, in fact, he looks like the man who is going to destabilize our area. |
It has gone very well, ... The polling booths went extremely well and very strict in terms of procedures, very transparent and lots of observers. |
It is an initial meeting. It is a beginning, and nothing else. |