Sharon Says No Peace Talks During Violence
JERUSALEM, Feb. 9, 01 (CWNews.com) - The newly elected
prime minister of Israel said there will be no resumption
of Middle East peace talks while violence by Palestinian
extremists continues, after a car bomb exploded in an
ultra-orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem on Thursday.
A previously unknown Palestinian group claimed
responsibility for the blast, which caused no serious
injuries, as a response to the election of Ariel Sharon as
prime minister earlier in the week. Sharon reacted by
informing Palestinian leaders that peace talks would not
continue while general violence, which began in September,
continues.
US President George W. Bush urged Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat to help break the latest cycle of Middle East
violence, shortly before the car bomb tore through an
Orthodox-Jewish Jerusalem neighborhood. Bush's telephone
call to Arafat was his first since the U.S. leader took
office January 20 and ushered in a more hands-off approach
to Washington's role in the peace process than the one
embraced by his predecessor Clinton.
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February 10, 2001
volume 12, no. 41
News from the Universal Church
www.DailyCatholic.org
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