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once again, doesn't really fit the cliches:
"US President George W Bush has said Israel must end its occupation of some Arab land to enable the creation of a viable Palestinian state.
He also urged a solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees that would involve paying them compensation.
It is thought to be Mr Bush's strongest public statement pressing Israel to give up land it seized in the 1967 war.
He was speaking in Jerusalem following two days of separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
He has been trying to encourage the two sides into peace talks, and says he wants a peace deal signed by the time he leaves office in January 2009.
Mr Bush said in a statement: "It is vital that each side understands that satisfying the other's fundamental objectives is key to a successful agreement."
He said this would require:
* secure recognised and defensible borders for Israel
* a viable, contiguous, sovereign and independent Palestinian state
He added: "Agreement must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people."
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so much for the millenialist trying to achieve biblical prophecies that would bring about armageddon, or whatever he was supposed to be according to some more hysterical commentators.
even among those who should be more responsible, i hope in time that there is some sober reflection. the world would have been better off for this man being presented for what he is: a not terribly impressive, and probably intellectually lightweight politician grappling with some of the most serious geopolitical issues any president has faced with a while.
the truth is more prosaic, but just as serious as the babbling of hysterics, propagandists and fatboy fibbers. instead we've had inflationary hysterics that contribute to polarisation, division and disharmony and an increasingly flighty and irresponsible western intellectual climate.
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When President Bush and corporate America stop selling weapons to the Israeli military, stop pumping financial aid into the one country in the Middle East that deserves it least, and abide by UN resolutions that have been passed, then maybe his words might mean something more than political spin/verbal diarrhoea.
Actions speak louder than words.