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By J. Zel Lurie
 DELRAY BEACH, Florida— President Obama should talk to the Israeli people. He should explain to them that seven years ago the government of Ariel Sharon accepted the rRoad Map to a Palestine State presented to them and to the Palestine Authority by the Quartet, the United states, Russia. the European Union and the United Nations.
In the First Phase of the Road Map the Palestinians agreed to combat terror and the Israelis agreed to a freeze of settlement activity and to eradicate the settlement outposts erected since
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2001. The Palestinians have fulfilled their part. A new Palestinian security force trained in Jordan by the United States General Drayton and subsidized by the American taxpayer has taken over the Palestinian cities from the Israel Army.
It is now up to Israel to fulfill its part of the bargain. It must freeze the settlements and begin to eradicate the illegal outposts. It can no longer rely on the fiction "natural growth" under which the population of the settlements were increased by almost a third since the Road Map was agreed to seven long years ago.
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