US president (Cretin) predicts Mideast peace treaty will be completed by time he leaves office.
‘I am confident that with proper help, the state of Palestine will emerge,’ he says in joint press conference with Palestinian President Abbas (Traitor) in Ramallah; Abbas says visit historic, gives Palestinians ‘great hope’
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Latest Update: 01.10.08, 11:23 / Israel News
RAMALLAH – US President George W. Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office. He said he was convinced that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders understand “the importance of democratic states living side by side” In peace.
“I am confident that with proper help, the state of Palestine will emerge,” Bush told Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas. “And I’m confident when it emerges, it will be a major step toward peace. I am confident that the status quo is unacceptable, Mr. President, and we want to help you.”
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Abbas, standing alongside Bush, called on Israel to fulfill its commitments to a Mideast peace plan, and said he hoped “this will be the year for the creation of peace.”
“In order for there to be lasting peace, President Abbas
and Prime Minister Olmert have to come together and make tough choices,” Bush said. “And I’m convinced they will. And I believe it’s possible – not only possible, I believe it’s going to happen – that there be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office (in January 2009). That’s what I believe.”
The president described the current round of negotiations as an opportunity to move toward a day when there will be two democracies – Israel and a Palestinian state – living alongside one another in peace. “It is in the interest not only of the Palestinians and Israelis but of the world,” Bush said.
“We can stay stuck in the past, which will yield nothing
good for the Palestinians in my judgment,” he said. “We
can chart a hopeful future.”
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