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...week-long swing through the Middle East and Europe, Rice said that she sees an opening for peace between Israel and the Palestinians that has not existed for years, noting that recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signaled that "they're circling each other. And the question is, is this therefore a time to accelerate work on the roadmap, accelerate it in a way that doesn't just focus on today's issues- movement and security, movement and access-as important as those are, but starts to understand what the political horizon might...
...Although many experts believe the odds are overwhelmingly against Rice's efforts to broker a peace agreement and establish an independent Paelstine, given the weakened political positions of both Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud, Abbas, Rice insisted that she was "actually in a better strategic position certainly than... in '01, but maybe ... ever...
...Rice said that her journey was meant to listen to regional leaders and get to the question at the heart of the matter: "Can you really start to move in a way that gives you a chance to establish a Palestinian state?" Rice says she hopes to capitalize on the political unpheaval in the Palestinian territories and signs that Hamas' popularity is fading. "In some ways, the pressure on Hamas seems to be coming from inside the territories where the inability to govern because of the international embargo, which by the way when we started down this road people said...
...During a 30-minute interview, Rice added that...
...North Korea may soon return to multilateral negotiations aimed at dismantling its nuclear weapons program in exchange for economic aid. Despite an inconclusive round of talks in December, with China "putting pressure on the North Koreans do to more," Rice said, "it's certainly the best alignment of forces for a possible solution that I've seen in a while...