The Israeli Knesset approved a statement by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the “road map” for peace. The legislators voted 57-42 to approve a policy statement that focused on the anti-terror aspects of the U.S.-backed plan, ignoring the fact that the map also calls for concessions by Israel and a Palestinian state in three years.
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