Bush

JERUSALEM (AP):

United States President George W. Bush, summing up meetings with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, said yesterday that a peace accord will require ''painful political concessions'' by each. Resolving the status of Jerusalem will be hard, he said, and he called for the end of the ''occupation'' of Arab land by the Israeli military.

''Now is the time to make difficult choices,'' Bush said after a first-ever visit to the Palestinian territories, which followed separate meetings with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem the day before.

Bush is in the Mideast for eight days, trying to bolster his goal of achieving a long-elusive peace agreement by the end of his presidency, in a year. Speaking at his hotel in Jerusalem, he said, again, that he thinks that is possible.