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breakfast at 8:30 and
sometimes doesn't return to
her apartment until evening.
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Palestinian state, Israeli withdrawal
from all Arab territory occupied since
1967 and an agreed settlement to the
refugee question',' a statement from
the Jordanian Embassy said.
It also incorporates the Arab
demand for a "right of return" to Israel
for millions of Palestinian refugees
and their descendants, something
Israelis see as a call for the destruction
of the Jewish state by demographic
means. In recent weeks, however,
U.S. officials have suggested the plan
could form the basis for negotiations.
Abdullah also will meet with President
Bush and address Congress.
Abbas Deal Opposed
Washington/JTA
The four
top members of the U.S. House of
Representatives dealing with the
Middle East asked the government to
reconsider $86 million slated for use
by Mahmoud Abbas.
The money was meant to bol-
ster forces loyal to the Palestinian
Authority president, who leads the rel-
atively moderate Fatah Party, against
challenges from the terrorist Hamas
movement.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, the lawmakers said
they were reconsidering their support
for the funding in light of a recent
Hamas-Fatah unity agreement.
Signing on to the letter were Reps.
Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee;
Ileana Ros Lehtinen, R-Fla., its rank-
ing member; Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y.,
chairman of its Middle East subcom-
mittee; and Mike Pence, R-Ind., the
subcommittee's ranking member.
"The fact that Fatah will now join a
government led by Hamas terrorists
— and will do so with Abbas' bless-
ing — raises serious questions about
the commitments and loyalties of the
Palestinian security forces we had
undertaken to assist," the letter said.
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War Critic New Adviser
Washington/JTA
U.S. Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice named
Eliot Cohen to be State Department
counselor. The appointment of Cohen,
a neoconservative who teaches at the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies, was announced
last Friday.
Cohen will serve as a special adviser
and consultant to Rice. In 2005, when
his son, an Army ranger, was shipping
out to Iraq, Cohen sharply criticized
the handling of the war in a widely
cited Washington Post opinion piece.
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Abdullah Pushes Plan
Washington/JTA
Jordan's king
urged the United States to support
a 2002 Arab initiative for Israeli-
Palestinian peace.
Abdullah II, in Washington on
a peace push, met Monday with
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"The Arab Peace Initiative envisions
comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace,
with full security guarantees for Israel
from Arab states in exchange for the
establishment of a viable, independent
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Cheney At AIPAC
Washington/JTA Vice President
Dick Cheney will address the AIPAC
policy conference. This marks the sec-
ond year in a row that the vice presi-
dent will speak at the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee event.
Cheney represents the Bush admin-
istration's hardest line on containing
Iran's nuclear program, a central
strategy for the pro-Israel lobby. The
conference runs March 11-13; Cheney
speaks March 12.
Leaders of both parties in the U.S.
House of Representatives and the U.S.
Senate also will speak. It will also be
the first speech to AIPAC by Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., as House speaker.
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Engagement With Iran
Washington/JTA
Sen. Barack
Obama, Dill., told an AIPAC audience
that he favors both tougher sanctions
against Iran and direct engagement.
"The world must work to stop Iran's
uranium enrichment program and
prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear
weapons," the Democratic presidential
contender said Friday at an American
Israel Public Affairs Committee event
in Chicago.
"It is far too dangerous to have
nuclear weapons in the hands of
a radical theocracy. And while we
should take no option, including mili-
tary action, off the table, sustained
and aggressive diplomacy combined
with tough sanctions should be our
primary means to prevent Iran from
building nuclear weapons."
Obama described his "tough-
minded diplomacy" as including
"direct engagement with Iran similar
to the meetings we conducted with the
Soviets at the height of the Cold War,
laying out in clear terms our principles
and interests." It also would mean "real
leverage through stronger sanctions."
The Bush administration, backed by
AIPAC, favors only limited, multilateral
engagement with Iran until that coun-
try achieves nuclear transparency.
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