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Show A-5 The Park Record WedyThurs/Fri, September 14-16, 2005 CITY BEAT CITY EDITOR:Jay Hamburger 649-9014 ext.l I I citynews@parkrecord.com FREE Speaker: U.S. must be peacemaker Computerized Analysis of Your Home's Approximate Value Emailed to Your Inbox peace have not worked. He said a two-state solution, meaning that a Of the Record staff Palestinian state is formed alongThe United States, not the side Israel, is "the only way out" of European nations, must lead the the dispute. He wants the U.S. to negotiations to hrokcr a lasting work harder for a two-stale solupeace between Israel and the tion. Palestinians, a former Middle East "They are suffering under a diplomat said during a Part; City very onerous Israeli occupation," speech on Friday. he said about the Palestinians. Speaking at the Calvary Chapel Wiicox said Israelis understand in Prospector, Phillip Wileox, how- thai they cannot cast aside the ever, acknowledged thai he does Palestinians and the Palestinians not see America doing a very good realize that ihe Middle East map job at being the peacemaker. will not return to the borders that, He said the perception in the were intact prior to 1948, when Arab world is that the U.S. acts as Israel was formed. an agent for ihe Israelis during He touched on the Israeli withnegotiations and that America drawal from the Gaza Strip but must win the hearts and minds of said hopes for a peace between the Arabs through work in Iraq and two sides are exaggerated. on the Palestinian question. Wiicox claimed that the Israeli "We have to do it ourselves. We settlements are the principal roadhaven't done it very well. I'm block to peace between the two afraid." he said about the U.S. role sides and charged that the settlein brokering a peace deal. ments were sited in an attempt to Wiicox. who is the president of thwart attempts to create a the Washington, D.C.-based Palestinian state. He said the Foundation for Middle East Peace Israeli settlements break up and spent 31 years in the foreign Palestinian lands. service, including an assignment in Wiicox covered a range of topJerusalem, spoke to 19 people dur- ics, including that Israel's controSCOTT SINE/fiAflK RECORD ing [he appearance. versial security wall, which he said Utahns for a Just Peace in the penetrates into Palestinian land, is Phillip Wiicox, a former diplomat, spoke about Middle East polHoly Land organized the speech. a "recipe for new warfare," that itics during a speech at Calvary Chapel on Friday. He said The group is generally sympathet- the idea that violence is a solution Israel's Gaza Strip withdrawal exaggerated hopes for peace. ic to the Palestinian cause for both sides is "absolutely mad" although leaders say they do not and that both Israelis and lake sides in the Israeli-Palestinian American Jews are split on the dispute. issue. Wiicox accused the U.S. of "We should treat them as real retreating from playing a leader- friends and speak ihe truth to ship role in the dispute, saying thai them," he said about Americanthe American attempts to broker Israeli relations. By JAY HAMBURGER » • • Traffic talk planned By JAY HAMBURGER Of tin Record staff Th e S we c n e y family on Wednesday night will return to ihe Park Ciiy Planning Commission with its Treasure Hill proposal, a key meeting during which commissioners will conduct a public hearing and discuss traffic. Wednesday's meeting has been anticipated for some lime since- it is the first since a peer review of a Sweeney family consultant's traffic study was released. The peer review, funded by City Mall and conducted bv the firm. Fehr & Peers, agreed with the consultant's Receive an insightful market analysis with recent comparable sales in your neighborhood. Simply fill out a brief survey about your properly at and you will recieve a free report quickly, by email and without having to speak to an agent. y * " - : ' • • Treat yourself to Licah's "BhST Sl.NDAY B R U N C H " with live music. assertion thai neighborhood streets could handle the Treasure Hill-related traffic increases anticipated. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Park City Council's chambers at City Hall! The Treasure Hill hearing is anticipated to begin soon after the meeting's starting rime. 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