Bush in Ramallah

RAMALLAH, West Bank – President Bush, summing up meetings with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, said Thursday that a peace accord will require “painful political concessions” by each. Resolving the status of Jerusalem will be hard, he said, and he called for the end of the “occupation” of Arab land by the Israeli military.

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He also called for an end to the choke-hold the overseas Patriarchates have on their respective local churches in the so-called Diaspora when it comes to Orthodox Unity.

(Okay. I made that last part up.)

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For more, in French — though the pics are in English:) — go HERE.