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Asked what the Prime Minister expected to get from the President with regards to the Middle East, the PMOS told journalists that as he had said this morning, discussions should be allowed to take place. We all accepted that due to the length of the US election process, and also due to factors on the ground, momentum had slowed in the Middle East Peace Process in the last year. It was now time to pick up that momentum and what would come from the meeting would be a signal of intent as to how we might do that.

Asked if we would make specific proposals, the PMOS said that it shouldn’t be thought that we were starting from a blank page on this issue. We had the Road Map, we had the stated intention to withdraw from Gaza and we knew the administration’s mind and they knew our mind. What we were anxious to talk about was how we could move forward jointly and collectively and do so in partnership with Europe and others. Asked how we would describe the administrations mind, the PMOS said that it was better if the administration described their own policy.

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"We all accepted that due to the length of the US election process, and also due to factors on the ground, momentum had slowed in the Middle East Peace Process in the last year."

Oh did we? We all accepted that so as not to upset the Jewish lobby, America had to ignore the crimes committed on both sides of the Israel/Palestine solution and put on hold the needs of the Palestinians to have their own country within secure borders and – unlike Sharon’s Gaza plan – a country not under the control of the Israelis.

We all accepted that delay did we?
Comment by Robin — 9 Nov 2004 on 12:45 pm | Link

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