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There are a couple of things strange about this article you posted from Ha'aretz. There is no dateline giving the place (Washington?) and the date this speech was supposed to have been delivered, which the AP - though its journalistic standards leave a lot to be desired - usually has on its articles. Also, there is no author's name. The article is accompanied by a photo of Rice with Olmert, rather than one of Rice and the Palestinian jerk who heads this organization before which this speech was supposedly given.

This puts into some reasonable doubt the authenticity of this story.

It's a bit brash to call Rice "anti-Israel" on the basis of this story alone (even if it is accurate). And it's certainly no reason for Jews interested in the future of Israel to vote for Dummycrats!

If someone can confirm the basic details mentioned in the story from a more credible source, please let me know.

The quotes are accurate, the text of the speach is here. Sec'y Rice Keynote Address at the American Task Force on Palestine Inaugural Gala

The speach was Wednesday night in DC. The quotes are accurate. I think it's reasonable to presume this is here line when speaking with Arab leaders as well.

Last month, in his speech to the UN General Assembly, President Bush reiterated his deep conviction that the Palestinian people deserve a better life - a life that is rooted in liberty and democracy, uncompromised by violence and terrorism, unburdened by corruption and misrule, and forever free of the daily humiliation of occupation. It is this belief that led President Bush, in June of 2002, to become the first American president to make it a matter of policy that the creation of a Palestinian state, with territorial integrity, with viability, living side by side with Israel, in peace and security, would indeed strengthen peace and security, not just in the region but the peace and security of us all.