Bush uses 'Palestine' deliberately

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NATION/WORLD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2001 A7 Bush uses 'Palestine' deliberately Powell says using name marks Rights groups say Israel tortures prisoners new U.S. policy of coexistence JERUSALEM - Israeli authorities violations are being investigated. It torture Palestinian detainees also says that security forces By Ron Kampeas Mr.

Powell said. regularly despite a 1999 Supreme sometimes need to extract The Associated Press No Democrat, either.

Court ban on the practice, three information quickly from suspects President Clinton carefully local and international human rights who may have knowledge of an WASHINGTON - "Palestine" parsed his historic speech in 1998 groups said in a report Sunday. • impending attack. entered the U.S. government lexi- to Palestinian legislators: "For The document cited affidavits con with President Bush's speech the first time in the history of the from detainees, including a An Israeli government report on to the United Nations.

Palestinian movement, the Pales- 16-year-old who said he was the issue and the response by the Secretary of State Colin Powell tinian people and their elected soaked in freezing water, made to human rights groups will be said Sunday that it reflected the representatives now have a carry a heavy wooden beam while submitted to an 11-day meeting of administration's vision of two chance to determine their own manacled and then beaten. the U.N.

Committee Against Torture states, Israel and Palestine, side destiny on their own land." Israel said the ban on torture is in Geneva, to begin today. by side.

Until now, the State Depart- still in effect and that alleged The Associated Press Until now, U.S. officials have ment has used "Palestine" only to referred to the possibility of a describe the British-controlled "Palestinian state," but have nev- territory that existed before Isra- er called it "Palestine." el's establishment in 1948. Israel Mr. Powell said Mr.

Bush's use assumed some of the territory; of "Palestine" in his speech Satur- the other parts were controlled by day was deliberate. "If one is moving forward with apared by Israel in the 19re a vision of two states side by Mideast war. side," Mr.

Powell said on NBC's Although Israel has accepted Meet the Press, "it's appropriate the existence of a Palestinian ... to call those two states what state as an outcome of peace they will be, Israel and Palestine." talks, calling it "Palestine" has Mr. Bush told the U.N. General been a sensitive issue.

It has Assembly that the United States raised concerns that it would im- is "working toward the day when two states - Israel and Palestine - Palestine- aly the pre-94a eresury, trut live peacefully together within se- ing Israel. cure and recegnized borders as Palestinian leader Yasser Ara- called for by the Security Council fat, who met with Mr. Powell resolutions.

Sunday in New York, sax Mr. "No Republican president has Bush's use of "Palestine" was ever made (such) a statement," "very importent," and significant that it came before the world body. "We thank him from the bottom of our heart." Mr. Bush wants to bolster Arab and Muslim support for the U.S.- led war against suspected terror- ists and their protectors in Af- ghanistan.

His statement was warmly welcomed by Arab dele- gates for referring to "recog- nized" borders, and for suggest- ing that Security Council resolutions implied statehood Before the Sept. 11 attacks, the administration's approach to the yeariong Israeli-Palestinian vio- lence was notable for its lack of involvement. Mr.

Bush said be thought the Clinton administration had been too involved in there- gion, disappointing some Arabs who had hoped Mr. Bush would balance what they perceived as Clinton's pro-Israel tilt. The shift since Sept.

11 has unnerved Israelis, and Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last month wondered whether the United States was sacrificing Isra- el's security interests to building a coalition against terror. Administration officials stressed they were still keeping a tough tine with Mr. Arafat. Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, said Mr.

Bush still would not meet with Mr. Arafat, although both were in New York over the weekend. Ms. Rice said the administra- tion was frustrated with Mr. Ara- fat's failure to arrest terronsts.

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"Bush uses 'Palestine' deliberately," Connecticut Post, 15 December 1998. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1998-012. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1998-012