Bush: "stealing of land O.K.!

Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, visited George Bush and received the American president's enthusiastic backing for a plan to evacuate all Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip. Mr Bush also said that it was unrealistic in any final peace for Palestinian refugees to return to Israel proper, so they would have to find a home in the new Palestinian state. He added to Palestinian anger by saying that Israel could not be expected to make a “full and complete” return to its pre-1967 borders, given all the changes on the ground over the past decades.