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To: Elroy who wrote (247347)	11/5/2007 10:44:33 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 281500

Rice says Palestinian state within reach * Condoleezza Rice says U.S. summit can be "launching pad" to peace * Arab governments want process to succeed, Rice says * Palestinian leader says he's encouraged by Israeli leader's statements * Israeli prime minister: Palestinian leaders "want to live with us in peace" * Next Article in World »estinian state alongside Israel is within reach, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday after talks with the Palestinian president and Israeli prime minister. art.rice.mideast.ap.jpg U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. "We are very serious in seizing this opportunity ... to reach this historical peace that would lead to the creation of an independent Palestinian state, with its capital of Jerusalem, that would live alongside the state of Israel," Rice said Monday. Rice said a proposed summit in Annapolis, Maryland, later this year can be a "launching pad" toward a two-state solution. "We appear to be on course to prepare seriously for continuous ongoing negotiations," said Rice, who appeared at a press briefing Monday in the West Bank with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. She met Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who underscored the importance of the Annapolis summit in a speech. "Annapolis will be the jumping-off point for continued serious and in-depth negotiations which will not avoid any issue or ignore any division which has clouded our relations with the Palestinian people for many years," Olmert said. Rice said there are "very clear signs" Arab neighbors want the process to succeed. "I can really say without fear of contradiction that everybody's goal is the creation" of a Palestinian state, she said. Rice's trip is her third visit to the Middle East since mid-September, indicative of the Bush administration's efforts to jump-start the dormant peace process before the president's term ends. Abbas said he was "encouraged" by Olmert's statements Sunday and said he's seeking an accord that will lead to a solution on final status issues such as Jerusalem, settlements, water and refugees. No date has been set for the Annapolis summit because both sides have yet to reach an agreement on the mutual vision they hope to present at the conference. Olmert, who opposed the Oslo Accords in the early '90s, said an opportunity for peace talks exists "because it's time." "Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, and Salaam Fayyad, its prime minister, publicly state -- without hesitation and despite the inherent difficulties of the complex relations within Palestinian society -- that they want to live with us in peace. This is an opportunity. It should be taken," Olmert said. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

To: Elroy who wrote (247347)	11/5/2007 11:00:07 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

I think noel thinks them incabable of the task and thus inferior as human beings. White guy limosine liberals like Noel always think this of the "backward" peoples. Treating all folks as equals is one of the positive things conservative thinking has brought us. No double standards. If you are human act human and there is no doubt in my mind that even some of todays bomb throwers can change their ways when opportunity is present. Unfortunately for the Pals they have had fatah, hamas and arab leaders who scapegoat israel and blame the jews and now the yanks for everything wrong in their lives. Bush wanted to make iraq an example for progressive arabs---didnt quite work out but the effort at least cast the arabs as equals with the same creator etc. and with the ability to run their own affairs. For Noel, there is only paternalism and blaming the US and Israel.