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| Sharon: No Peace Until Palestinian Leaders Reform |
| 2002-05-14 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon branded the Palestinian leadership a "corrupt terror regime" Tuesday and said there could be no peace until it undertook sweeping internal reforms. Sharon was addressing Israel's parliament two days after the central committee of his Likud Party voted never to accept the creation of a Palestinian state. Sharon has said before that he is prepared to see a limited, demilitarized Palestinian state created alongside Israel but only at the end of a lengthy and incremental peace process. Without mentioning the statehood issue, Sharon said on Tuesday: "There can be no peace with a corrupt terror regime which is rotten and dictatorial... There has to be a different (Palestinian) Authority." Y'see, Likud, that's the way to do it. Don't say "we'll never accept a Palestinian state." Say "we'll accept a Palestinian state when the PA stops being corrupt and dictatorial." The two mean the same thing, semantically. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |