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European papers on Bush's speech
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Le Monde (France)
President George Bush proposed a strange deal with the Palestinians on Monday: the United States will help you to build a state if you get rid of your leader ...
Under what name does the US assume the right to say who should be the head of a national liberation movement? ... What it requires of the Palestinians under occupation - democracy, transparency, effectiveness - it does not require of the number of dictatorships in the region with which it maintains good relations.

But that is perhaps not the essence ... by demanding Mr Arafat's departure, one of the principal objectives of the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, it ratifies an Israeli obsession: the elimination, at least political, of the man who symbolises the Palestinian national movement.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany)
One cannot argue with Mr Bush's making an end to terrorism a condition of negotiations. He wanted to make it clear that there can be no political "rewards" for the kind of bloody attacks on civilians that Palestinian extremists have been carrying out for months. Yet this is where the problem starts. What is terrorism? Might it also include some of the actions of the Israeli army ... what about Israel's "extra-judicial killings"?

Terrorism is not something one can simply turn off. Radical elements, particularly the Islamic group Hamas, have long determined the course of action in the Middle East. Mr Arafat and Mr Sharon are each in their own way hostages to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas' founder and leader. With his attacks, he constantly forces Mr. Sharon to act as he does, which then deepens the hostility between the two warring parties.

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El Mundo (Spain)
In Afghanistan and the Middle East George Bush is today forced - in spite of all the isolationist instincts of North American conservatives - into the most dangerous exercises of nation building. If the United States is committed once and for all in the creation of a Palestinian state it is possible perhaps to fulfill that objective within three years ... But when making it conditional on Yasser Arafat's disappearance from Palestinian politics, Mr Bush goes too far in accepting Ariel Sharon's aims to the last letter.

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