White House spokesman Ari Fleischer rejected the notion that Israel and Iraq have similarly disobeyed U.N. resolutions. At a news conference Wednesday before President Bush met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Fleischer said “there is a qualitative difference between the resolutions that were passed dealing with Iraq and the resolutions that were passed dealing with a more comprehensive focus on how to bring peace to the Middle East.”
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