>Bush and Sharon Nearly Identical On Mideast Policy
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45652-2003Feb8?language=printer
>By Robert G. Kaiser
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Sunday, February 9, 2003; Page A01
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>Running for reelection last month, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel
>repeatedly boasted of the "deep friendship" he has built with the Bush
>administration -- "a special closeness," he called it. He thanked President
>Bush for understanding Israel's security needs and for providing "the
>required leeway in our ongoing war on terrorism." He praised Bush's latest
>proposals for reaching a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement -- a plan, said
>Sharon, that he and Bush had agreed on together.