York Sunday News · York, PA · 22 June 2003
CP-2003-030
Israel: Disband Hamas
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Transcribed from the clipping
JERUSALEM — Israel’s foreign minister said yesterday that no progress can be made on a U.S.-backed peace plan unless the Palestinian Authority decides to dismantle the violent Hamas group. The comments came as Palestinians continued efforts to instead win a Hamas pledge to stop attacks. On the West Bank, Israeli troops shot and killed a Hamas militant.
European, U.S. and U.N. mediators were scheduled to meet today to discuss ways of salvaging the road map plan. President Bush could dispatch National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice — whom he has called his “personal representative” to the Mideast peace process — to the region as early as next week, administration officials said.
The visit would be the latest in a series of high-level U.S. efforts to bolster the road map, which Bush launched at a June 4 Mideast summit. The plan, a blueprint for ending 33 months of violence and establishing a Palestinian state by 2005, has been hobbled by deadly bombings and missile strikes.
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Clean, fully legible clipping; the whole item is transcribed. Useful mainly as a 2003 baseline showing what the wire register looks like when no Arab citizen of Israel is in the story: “Palestinian” appears only as an institution or a future state.
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"Israel: Disband Hamas," York Sunday News, 22 June 2003. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2003-030. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2003-030
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