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...deck seemed stacked against U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the start of Monday's three-way summit with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. No one really was in a mood to talk - and politics back in Washington was getting in Rice...
...task of persuading the Israelis and the Palestinians to renew peace talks, never easy, is now complicated by the Palestinians' new "national unity" government, which will be dominated by the militant organization Hamas. Earlier, Rice had exhibited discretion, saying she would withhold judgment on the controversial Palestinian government until it is formed in five weeks. But her caution, and any leeway for bargaining, was undercut by news from Washington. Soon after her arrival in Jerusalem on Saturday, the Israeli press reported that President George W. Bush already had assured Olmert that the U.S. will never deal with the new government...
...also under pressure from the Europeans and moderate Arab states to coax Israel into meeting the Palestinians halfway. The Europeans, along with Russia and the United Nations - all members, along with the U.S., of the "Quartet" mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - see Hamas' decision to "respect" past agreements between the Palestinian Authority and the Jewish state as a softening of their death-to-Israel stance. And the conservative, Sunni-led Arab governments have let Rice know that if the U.S. doesn't make a concerted effort to end the festering misery in the Palestinian territories, it will be much more...
...darkest days of the Iraq war, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on a mission to restore order. Can she possibly bring peace to Iraq and mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without admitting the Administration's mistakes? Readers fear it may already be too late to change course...
...sign a peace treaty with Egypt. Peace Now has supported some Israeli military measures, including Israel's military response to Hizballah gunmen who crossed from Lebanon into Israel to kidnap two soldiers in the summer of 2006. Our objection to the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories does not stem from a pacifist philosophy but from a pragmatic conviction: such settlements undermine Israel's security and the efforts to achieve a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ori Nir, Spokesman Americans for Peace Now Washington...