Israel’s new Kadima Party could achieve peace with the Palestinians, Shimon Peres said. Peres, who quit the Labor Party and is expected to join the government if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Kadima Party wins March elections, said Saturday that he was optimistic on peacemaking prospects. “The Sharon party is for a Palestinian state, for negotiating with the Palestinians, for the ‘road map’ and for starting it right away. That was my position all my life,” Peres told the BBC, referring to the internationally backed “road map” peace plan.
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