Mideast Peace Promoters Sharply Criticize Bush Administration

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0816-06.htm

Published on Monday, August 16, 2004 by the Agence France Presse

Mideast Peace Promoters Sharply Criticize Bush Administration


CAUX, Switzerland - The authors of the unofficial Geneva Initiative for peace between Israel and the Palestinians criticized the United States, with one of the top Israeli initiators admitting he wanted the Democrats to win November's US presidential race.

"I hope personally that there will be a new president in the United States of America because that's the best interest of the state of Israel," former Israeli Labour Party politician and parliament speaker Avraham Burg said.

"I would like the Democrats to take over and a Democrat administration to pick up at the point where (ex-president Bill) Clinton left the region," he told journalists during a conference in the Swiss village of Caux.

Burg and his Palestinian counterpart on the Geneva Initiative, former information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, called for a revival of US political involvement in the Middle East conflict.


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[Stone_Spirits]

1. is there anyone who really wants peace

who wants Bush? I don't think so.

[ck4829]

2. According to Theocracy Watch

Bush doesn't do anything with Israel and the Palestinians without first consulting the Christian Right.

And thus, no Peace.

[G_j]

3. well if that is the case

it makes sense because the religious right wants Armageddon.