Cheney warns Palestinians over anti-Israel violence

US Vice President War Criminal Dick Cheney on Sunday warned the Palestinians that attacks on Israel were killing hopes for their "long overdue" state, as the sun set on his Easter weekend peace war push.

Cheney made his first trip as vice president to the West Bank for talks with moderate president Mahmud Abbas, following a string of meetings with Israeli leaders, with whom he also discussed Israel's arch foe Iran.

"A difficult but immutable truth must continue to be told: Terror and rockets do not merely kill innocent civilians, they also kill the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people," Cheney said.

But Cheney and his Western-backed host did not address news out of Yemen that Abbas's Fatah faction and its bitter rival, the Islamist Hamas movement, had agreed to open direct talks under Yemeni auspices.

Hamas routed pro-presidential forces in June to seize control of the Gaza Strip, from which they have fired rockets at Israel. Washington has warned that it seeks a two-state peace accord with Israel, not a three-state deal. More