The past decade's major policies: the withdrawal from Gaza, the construction of the security fence, the acceptance of the road map peace plan, the Annapolis Conference, Operation Defensive Shield, the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead all shared one central feature.
From their opposition to the failed Oslo process to their opposition to the failed Camp David summit, from their opposition to the withdrawal from south Lebanon and Gaza to their opposition to the failed road map peace process and the failed Annapolis peace process, the National Union has been right all along.
As George Bush welcomes Mahmoud Abbas this Friday, and Ariel Sharon the following Tuesday, the president and the two prime ministers can, if their luck holds out till then, be grateful that nothing particularly bad has happened in the month since July 1st when they celebrated taking the first steps on the road map to peace.
Mr Blair insisted that the plan did not hamper the road map to peace between Israel and Palestine, even though it remained the view of the UK government that the Israeli settlements were illegal.
So while then-prime minister Ehud Barak for instance claimed that his offer to cede the Temple Mount was contingent on the signing of a peace treaty, when the so-called Middle East Quartet issued its road map plan for peace, Barak's ostensibly canceled offer was the starting point of negotiations.
The Palestinians also charge that the plan violates the "road map" to peace, the series of confidence-building measures and negotiations designed to lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state existing side-by-side in peace with Israel.
Mr Bush's decision to take an active role in the new peace process has at least given the road map impetus.
The road map peace plan, adopted by the Bush administration together with the other members of the Middle East Quartet (the EU, Russia and the UN) in 2003, is similarly explicit.
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The president arrived in Qatar after leading an Israeli-Palestinian summit on the so-called road map to peace, aimed at ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and establishing an independent Palestinian state by 2005.
In 2003, he held talks with Palestinian officials about the U.S.-led "Road Map to Peace" that called for the eventual creation of a Palestinian state.
It was on the basis of both Bush's letter and this more detailed agreement that both the Sharon and Olmert governments agreed to permit the US to act as an arbiter of Israel's implementation the so-called road map peace plan.
In April this year, under international pressure, Mr Arafat appointed the more moderate Mr Abbas as prime minister and, in June, President George Bush got Mr Sharon and Mr Abbas to shake hands on the road map, a peace plan drawn up by America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, which envisages an independent Palestinian state by 2005.
She said political settlements will be based on the road map for Middle East peace backed by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
Of particular interest are the large majorities nationwide that favor the key preconditions inherent in the "vision" for peace articulated last June by President Bush, but absent from the road map.
He said Hamas' participation violates international agreements, including the Oslo accords and the "road map" for Middle East Peace.
The beginning of peace and hope, what announced today in addition to being the implementation of the first article of the road map that was established by the quartet.
The poll addresses issues bearing on the contents and prospects of the President's "road map" for Mideast peace.
The long-promised road map for Israeli-Palestinian peace, which Syria condemns as inadequate, is likely to be endorsed by the rest of the war-weary region.
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The imminent power shift represents a stark change in ideologies: Abbas has long been a conduit of the White House-backed road map to Middle East peace.
Unfortunately, in the process of promoting this fiction, the United States is further eroding the already dim prospects for the so-called "Road map" for Mideast peace.
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He will head a team of monitors co-ordinating implementation of the so-called "road-map" to peace, after an experience as assistant secretary of state for non-proliferation in the State Department.
The "Mitchell Report" was praised for its impartiality and became the basis of a so-called road map for later peace initiatives.
Bush will leave the G-8 summit on Monday, a day early, to fly to Egypt for a meeting with Arab leaders before traveling to Jordan to meet the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers to discuss implementing the U.S.-backed "road map" to peace.
George Bush's road map for peace drew on ideas first proposed by Joschka Fischer, then the German foreign minister.
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Over the past twelve months, President Bush has embraced a "road map" that ostensibly implements his vision for Mideast peace.
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