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Bush calls for removal of Arafat, Israeli troops

For the first time since the Bush administration intervened and attempted to initiate peace… For the first time since the Bush administration intervened and attempted to initiate peace talks and a cease-fire between Israel and Palestine, the United States made the creation of a Palestinian state conditional on the removal of Yasser Arafat.

The speech, delivered from the White House June 26, was an attempt to end more than 20 months of violence in the Middle East.

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