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Thursday 4 April 2002

Israel / Palestinian Conflict

I've just been watching President Bush's speech earlier today in which he asks for restraint on the part both of the Palestinians and the Israelis. I think this is a particularly welcome development and I hope that both sides, the Israeli and the Palestinian, will take due heed. If there is ever to be peace in that part of the world, then both sides will have to learn to work together - as neighbours at the very least, even if they cannot bring themselves to be friends.

Whether it is due to Bush himself, or to his team of advisors and speech-writers (possibly a combination of all these factors), I think this President is shaping up to be someone in whom one can place a certain degree of confidence when times get tough - a valuable commodity.

Now he just needs to rethink his recent announcement of tariffs on non-NAFTA and a few other countries' steel products.

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