What was the 2003 Road Map for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs?
The so called Road Map is a performance-based plan with unambiguous milestones and definitions, intended to lead to a final and comprehensive settlement of the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict by 2005. It follows from the statement made on June 24, 2002 by U.S. President George Bush, a new United States policy formulation for the Middle East. The Quartet (the United States, European Union, Russia and the UN) will supervise and support the plan. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is firmly on board. The first steps in the plan call for significant reforms in the Palestinian Authority, up to now an entity unable or unwilling to control terrorism aimed at Israel. President Bush in his policy statement set forth a long list of very specific demands and reforms that would be required of the PA to show that they were capable of and willing to eliminate their former dependence on violence as the primary instrument of their policy. Bush correctly saw that no peace discussion with Israel had any
