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VPM Peres: Bush Promise On Settlement Blocs No Guarantee, 12,000 Hezbollah Missiles Insignificant, MK Shteinitz: Abbas Victory In DC
2005-05-27
VPM Shimon Peres told Israel Radio in a live interview this morning that the Bush "promise" regarding "large" settlement blocs in no way guarantees that Israel will retain them in the final status since the Bush "promise" is careful to note that the disposition of the settlement blocs requires the agreement of the Palestinians.
Peres said he was not concerned about a Hamas state in the Gaza Strip - even if it was armed with many thousands of rockets. VPM Peres asserted that the 12,000 rockets Hezbollah has in Southern Lebanon (that can carpet bomb Northern Israel) "endanger Lebanon more than Israel - what can they do with them?"
MK Yuval Shteinitz Chairman, Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee said in the same program that Mahmoud Abbas "taught us a lesson" in Washington, noting that Abbas has succeeded in getting President Bush's praise without actually acting against the terrorists - and while consistently taking the position that the he also will return to the terror option if and when he cannot achieve his goals via negotiations.
