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 | | US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday that the latest spike in Middle East violence cannot be allowed to derail the roadmap for peace, urging Israel and the Palestinians to hold to their stated commitments to the plan. |
 | | In addition, Powell kept up the steady barrage of US condemnation of radical Palestinian groups Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the al Aqsa Marytrs Brigade and suggested that Washington would not criticize Israeli retaliation against them until anti-Israel attacks stopped. |
 | | "It's clear what we want: Hamas to stop it, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa brigades, all of them to stop it and both sides meet the obligations they have under the roadmap that they made at the Aqaba summit," he said. |
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