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...night flight to Egypt, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to curl up with Michael Oren's Power, Faith and Fantasy, America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present. Recommending the bestseller to the reporters traveling with her, she noted that American involvement in the region went back to Thomas Jefferson...
...Rice is a passionate reader, to be sure, but her allusion to Jefferson, who wrestled with Barbary pirate attacks on American sailors two centuries ago, may also have been her way of illustrating the intractability of Mideast problems - and of lowering expectations. As she embarked late Friday on a four-day swing across the region, Rice knew very well how little time she had left to work toward the breathtakingly ambitious goal set by President Bush: the creation of a Palestinian state that could live alongside Israel in peace...
...aims for the trip, the second in as many months, are modest: "Right now," Rice said, "my primary goal is to establish a mechanism, a common approach, that I can use with them in parallel so that we are addressing the same issues. That's really the key right now." That is Rice's diplo-speak for her hopes of guiding Israeli and Palestinian leaders along parallel tracks to see a common "political horizon," to use one of her favorite phrases. The problem is that direct talks cannot happen so long as Israel refuses to deal with the Hamas faction...
...Rice and the Europeans have refused to join Israel in this blanket boycott; but the Secretary of State is not about to embrace Hamas either. However, if she wants to get something going between the Israelis and Palestinians, Rice will have to figure out a way to deal with Hamas - without explicitly dealing with Hamas. As it is, she intends to conduct wide-ranging talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (with whom Israel will speak) and last week had Jacob Walles, the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, meet with Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, Secretary of State, on the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq...