Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories

The Bush Administration's road map was launched with great fanfare at the June 2003 Aqaba summit. Nevertheless, the temporary reduction in killing and mayhem it achieved has been erased by a resumption of violence and terror.

U.S. officials, echoing Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, blame the collapse of the short-lived cease-fire and the current impasse on the Palestinian Authority's failure to destroy HAMAS and other suchgroups and on Yasser Arafat's refusal to give unified control over Palestinian security forces to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.