Tuesday, December 21, 2004

# 28 Peace, peace, no peace.

Out of one side of his mouth, GWB assures us we'll have peace in the Middle East by the end of his term, but out of the other side of his mouth he causes discord with Israeli leader Ariel Sharon. Either Bush has been munching on those "magic" mushrooms, or he thinks he's the antichrist.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/20/wbush20.xml

I will bring peace to Middle East, Bush promises

By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem and Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 20/12/2004)

President George W Bush yesterday predicted that he would bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians during his second term in office, making a strikingly bold assessment of his foreign-policy goals for the next four years.

"I want you to know that I am going to invest a lot of time and a lot of creative thinking so that there will finally be peace between Israel and the Palestinians," Mr Bush told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth.

"I am convinced that, during this term, I will manage to bring peace."

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...Jer 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

http://www.debka.com/article.php?size=big&aid=952

Sudden Discord between Bush and Sharon

DEBKAfile

Exclusive Report from Washington
December 17, 2004, 11:41 PM (GMT+02:00)

Israel’s prime minister Ariel Sharon was warned many a time to beware of placing all his major policy eggs in the George W. Bush basket. But from the time he first took office more than three years ago, he never wavered from his bond with the US president. Their friendship was often cited as one of Sharon’s prime assets. And until last week, the Bush administration stood behind the prime minister and heartily endorsed his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in stages ending in September 2005. But then the wind blowing in from Washington suddenly turned chill. In the last week, according to DEBKAfile’s Washington sources, the White House suddenly spun its sympathies around from Ariel Sharon and his disengagement plan to Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Fatah frontrunner in the Palestinian January 9 election, and his sweeping demands for territorial concessions.

Our sources in Washington believe that the determining factor in the US president’s turnabout was the message from Abbas that he will be in a position to announce a comprehensive ceasefire on or around January 1. He promises to bring all the Palestinian organizations including the radical Hamas and Jihad Islami into the truce.