Posted on 07/25/2006 8:01:09 AM PDT by Sabramerican
Rice says need to keep focus on Palestinian state despite Lebanon crisis
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a frenetic set of meetings amid intense Israeli Hezbollah fighting, said Tuesday the United States wants an "urgent and enduring" peace where problems are solved without war.
Talking to reporters after meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Rice said, "We need to get to a sustainable peace, there must be a way for people to reconcile their differences."
Earlier, meeting in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, she said the time has come for a new Middle East. "I have no doubt there are those who wish to strangle a democratic and sovereign Lebanon in its crib," Rice said. "We, of course, also urgently want to end the violence."
In Israel, she reiterated the United States' position that a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon must come with conditions, saying there is "no desire" on the part of U.S. officials to come back in weeks or months after terrorists find another way to disrupt any potential cease fire.
"It is time for a new Middle East," she said. "It is time to say to those that don't want a different kind of Middle East that we will prevail. They will not."
Rice said on Tuesday there was a need to remain focused on establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel despite the current crisis in Lebanon.
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As opposed to the rabid knee jerk haters who would rather have war without end.
This dream of a Pali state is just about over...imho
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
The Palis didn't elect Hamas for their administrative experience...Hamas lives only to destroy Israel.
I would have thought Condi would have realized this by now.
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Well, Hamas has been complaining they're not getting enough attention.
There will never be an independent West Bank, and there will never be an independent Gaza. The longer we persist in this fantasy, the longer we delay solutions that could work; the longer we chase something that isn't going to happen, the more innocent Israelis die, and the more hapless arab cannon fodder blow themselves, and get blown, to allah.
By their insistence that the borders between the territories and Israel remain open, the State Department suits and the arabs themselves tacitly admit this. Separate from Israel and separate from the mother countries (Jordan and Egypt) the territories are not viable, can't be, won't be. They have no economy that is not tied to welfare payments and blood money. There is no industry; who in his right mind would invest in a factory there?
Those who have, palestinian-americans who have tried to do something for their old home town, have seen their investment turn to dust right in front of their eyes. The territories are outlaw enclaves, ruled by outlaws, and populated by people content to be ruled by outlaws. There is no constituency for anything more; those who want merely to raise their families in peace left long ago. Those who remain are complicit in their own destruction.
The gunmen who rule these territories are not there to build a rump of a country on a patch of desert ground, they are there to wage war. To imagine that they would ever be content to be minor third world city aldermen in the shadow of Israel is to misunderstand completely who they are.
Real wars always burn themselves out. The problem is an unending "peace process" that keeps things on a low boil forever. Throughout human history it has been war which has made lasting peace possible while maintaining the pretense of "peace" amid unreconcilable differences has made war inevitable.
The Pallies had a golden opportunity to show the world that they were ready for statehood, and they failed miserably.
There are already plenty of Palestinian states, they are Arabs. Nothing more, nothing less. The fact that no other Arab states want them should not be Israel's problem.
Precisely why the Mafia "went to the mattresses" every ten years or so. It helped to clean up the bad blood. (Everything I learned, I learned from 'The Godfather')
a need to remain focused on establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel despite the current crisis in Lebanon.
I'm one who has changed her mind on a Palestinian state. We've seen the one in Gaza and we'd have to be out of our minds to support a Gaza like state in the West Bank.
Forget a Palestinian state. Just forget it.
I believe the palies (small p used to denote disrespect) have missed the world caring window of opportunity. Oh well we tried. I can sleep at night.
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