U.S. envoy begins mission to monitor compliance with road map

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A U.S. peace envoy launched his mission Monday, his duties complicated because Israel and the Palestinians have widely differing views of
the kind of monitoring their troubled peace moves need.

Lt. Gen. William M. Fraser III, a U.S. air force general, has been assigned to help the two sides overcome disputes created by noncompliance with the road map peace plan, which is the foundation of newly relaunched peace talks. The road map quickly floundered after it was introduced in 2003 because
neither side carried out initial obligations. Israel continued to build in disputed territory, and the Palestinians failed to disarm militants.

Nearly five years later, these same obstacles have proven to be as potent as ever, souring talks that officially resumed at an international gathering in Annapolis, Maryland, two months ago.

Israel has gone ahead with plans to build homes in areas the Palestinians claim for a future state, and Palestinian militants continue to attack or plan attacks against Israel from both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948913.html

[ProgressiveMuslim]

1. Has this dude turned on CNN in the past week? LOL! nt

[Tom Joad]

2. why is it that i suspect if he dares suggest any violation on the Israeli side,

that he will be sure to be ignored by the Bush administration. I think for every violation he announces, congress will make sure Israel will get more military aid from the US in order to defend the violations against all who would protest and resist such lawlessness on the part of the Israeli regime.