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Road Map for Peace in Middle East Focus of Powell's Next Mission
Aired May 09, 2003 - 05:07 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's move on to international news now and the road map for peace in the Middle East. It is the focus of Colin Powell's next major mission. The secretary of state leaves tonight. His goal is to gain acceptance of an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan developed by the U.S., the U.N., the European Union and Russia. Powell heads to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then he'll travel on to Europe for meetings with the leaders of Russia, Bulgaria and Germany.
So, Mr. Powell certainly has his work cut out for him. Violence continues between Israelis and Palestinians even as the secretary of state tries to talk peace.
For more on this, we're going to take you now live to Jerusalem and our Jerrold Kessel -- Jerrold, hello.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. Hello there, Daryn.
And a strange degree of optimism will greet Colin Powell when he arrives here tomorrow evening local time to begin this mission of trying to move the Israelis and Palestinians back from confrontation to negotiation and eventually really on to that road to peace. And the -- it was only a short while ago that the, this road map for peace was ceremonially unveiled and there were hearty handshakes, hearty smiles on the Palestinian side after the newly installed Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, received the details of that plan for peace, as it's been designated, this road map.
And but really the smiles and the strange optimism, as I say, goes at variance to the bumps on the road or the hills on the road that there are really for moving that into action, that the plan for peace into real action because there's not only the question of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank that's a problem. There's a question of Palestinian violence, ongoing violence like the killing we saw just a few days ago of a Jewish settler on the West Bank when his car was ambushed and the wounding of his 6-year-old daughter. There's been more Palestinian shooting from inside Gaza this morning to an Israeli town in southern Israel, rocketing, which wounded at least one child and a number of other people.
And Israeli violence that has continued, the Israeli military action to try to curb that Palestinian violence. Yesterday we saw Israeli helicopters targeting a leading Hamas man and killing him when his car was attacked by helicopter gunships. And this morning after a Palestinian suicide bombing against an Israeli military position in Gaza, Israel has demolished a number of Palestinian homes in the center part of Gaza.
So many bumps on that road, on Colin Powell's road, to try to iron out the difficulties getting from confrontation to negotiation in terms of this road map -- Daryn.
KAGAN: And you will be tracking it.
Jerrold Kessel from Jerusalem.
Jerrold, thank you.
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Aired May 9, 2003 - 05:07 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's move on to international news now and the road map for peace in the Middle East. It is the focus of Colin Powell's next major mission. The secretary of state leaves tonight. His goal is to gain acceptance of an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan developed by the U.S., the U.N., the European Union and Russia. Powell heads to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then he'll travel on to Europe for meetings with the leaders of Russia, Bulgaria and Germany.
So, Mr. Powell certainly has his work cut out for him. Violence continues between Israelis and Palestinians even as the secretary of state tries to talk peace.
For more on this, we're going to take you now live to Jerusalem and our Jerrold Kessel -- Jerrold, hello.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. Hello there, Daryn.
And a strange degree of optimism will greet Colin Powell when he arrives here tomorrow evening local time to begin this mission of trying to move the Israelis and Palestinians back from confrontation to negotiation and eventually really on to that road to peace. And the -- it was only a short while ago that the, this road map for peace was ceremonially unveiled and there were hearty handshakes, hearty smiles on the Palestinian side after the newly installed Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, received the details of that plan for peace, as it's been designated, this road map.
And but really the smiles and the strange optimism, as I say, goes at variance to the bumps on the road or the hills on the road that there are really for moving that into action, that the plan for peace into real action because there's not only the question of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank that's a problem. There's a question of Palestinian violence, ongoing violence like the killing we saw just a few days ago of a Jewish settler on the West Bank when his car was ambushed and the wounding of his 6-year-old daughter. There's been more Palestinian shooting from inside Gaza this morning to an Israeli town in southern Israel, rocketing, which wounded at least one child and a number of other people.
And Israeli violence that has continued, the Israeli military action to try to curb that Palestinian violence. Yesterday we saw Israeli helicopters targeting a leading Hamas man and killing him when his car was attacked by helicopter gunships. And this morning after a Palestinian suicide bombing against an Israeli military position in Gaza, Israel has demolished a number of Palestinian homes in the center part of Gaza.
So many bumps on that road, on Colin Powell's road, to try to iron out the difficulties getting from confrontation to negotiation in terms of this road map -- Daryn.
KAGAN: And you will be tracking it.
Jerrold Kessel from Jerusalem.
Jerrold, thank you.
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