by RAY FLEMING
WHEN Israeli tanks were terrorising Palestinian towns two years ago I wrote in this newspaper that the most powerful man in the world was not George W Bush but Ariel Sharon - because he had felt able to ignore frequent pleas from the White House to stop his military actions. Yesterday in Washington Mr Sharon confirmed his status. He persuaded Mr Bush to agree to decisions affecting Middle East peace which gave Israel everything it had asked for and took away from the Palestinians rights that have been fundamental to their cause for 50 years. Essentially, Mr Bush gave explicit support to Mr Sharon's plan to retain six settlements housing some 100'000 people on the occupied West Bank and rejected two main Palestinian final status claims, the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their original homes and the reinstatement of the original 1949 borders.
Israel gets everything
15/04/2004 00:00
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