She really, really, does!!!!!
"Rice Defends Mideast Peace Talks" by HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — The Bush administration’s Annapolis, Md., conference on Middle East peace will tackle the entrenched core issues that have bedeviled negotiators since 1979, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday, pushing back against critics who say the conference may be just a photo opportunity.
She said that she would try to broker a deal by the end of the Bush administration that would lead to a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. She cautioned that there was no guarantee that she would be successful, but maintained that she knew what she was doing.
She told reporters at a briefing: “I’m plenty steeped in the past history of negotiations, and I’m plenty steeped in some of the things that have worked and some of the things that haven’t. Let’s not talk about what level of preparation was there for other efforts, including efforts that didn’t succeed.”
Condi Rice: A cold cup of tea!
Rice has encountered a lot of hectoring from critics at home and abroad who say that the administration is engaging too little and too late, or in ways that are ultimately insubstantial.
Muhammad Zolfa, a member of Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council, an advisory body to King Abdullah:
“We don’t want a conference that only repeats what’s already been said, or a conference where only pictures are taken.”
Although dozens of Arab governments and international groups are invited to the conference, scheduled to start Tuesday, the two main parties — the Palestinian Authority and the government of Israel — have not yet agreed on a draft agenda as a starting point for negotiations.
And this is all coming down Tuesday? Pfffffttttt! She IS an idiot!
Mr. Zolfa said in a telephone interview from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:
“If the two concerned parties are going to the meeting without a statement they agree on, why are we and 40 other countries going?”
Brackets marked large sections of a Nov. 17 draft of the proposals between the negotiating parties obtained by The New York Times, meaning that those sections were still in dispute. Agreement had been reached on only the first two paragraphs, including a line about the fact that the meeting was being convened in Annapolis.
Ha-ha-ha-ha!!! I'm feeling a POSTPONEMENT coming!!
The Israelis and the Palestinians were even arguing about what to call the draft. Palestinians wanted to call it a “document”; Israelis wanted to call it a “statement.”
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
And these guys are gonna make PEACE before Bush is gone?
Haw-haw-haw-haw-haw!
The Palestinians objected to the use of the word “terrorism” in the draft, and Israel wanted to cut any reference to a timeline. Israeli negotiators also wanted the draft to say that Israel would be the homeland for the Jewish people, while Palestine would be the homeland of the Palestinian people, living side by side in peace and security.
Fucking racist NaZionists!
Palestinian negotiators objected to that line, arguing that such a sentence would predetermine the issue of right of return of Palestinian refugees and their families to their pre-1948 homes.
At the end of the draft, the Israelis inserted a note, which read, “Outstanding question for consideration: How to address the situation in Gaza in the document?”
Ooooooooh, so THAT IS WHAT THIS CONFERENCE is about, and that's why Fatah is being armed!!!!!
Seeing through the Zionist shit storm like me, readers?
The note refers to the takeover of Gaza by the militant Islamist organization Hamas. Many foreign policy experts question how Israel will reach a peace deal with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, when he no longer controls Gaza, home to more than a million Palestinians.
Ms. Rice, when asked about Gaza, said she believed that Hamas was “pretty isolated.” Nonetheless, she added, “Even Hamas agrees that Abbas is the negotiating authority for the P.L.O.,” referring to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Why are you propping for the "terrorists" to back you up, bitch?!
The arrogance and gall is nauseating!
And Hamas is isolated because of the Israeli lock down -- a physical condition, as opposed to the isolation of USrael on the world stage.
In the Arab world, pundits and analysts were quick to express skepticism about Ms. Rice’s chances for success. Some Arabs expressed concern that the United States would push Arab governments to improve relations with Israel without requiring Israel to make any meaningful concessions in exchange.
Yeah, it's been about 60 years of that kind of shit!
Israelis “are trying to exploit this U.S. conference to wrest Arab recognition of the state of Israel as a state for the Jewish people to the exclusion of all others,” wrote Umaima Ahmad al-Jalahma in the Saudi newspaper Al Watan. She said the conference could lead Arab governments to permanently accept the millions of Palestinian refugees displaced throughout the region.
Yeah, and since the western MSM is controlled by Zionists, they are doing a pretty good job here in AmeriKa!
Another columnist, Talal Salman, writing in the pro-Syrian newspaper As Safir, which is published in Beirut, dismissed the prospect for real negotiations at Annapolis, arguing that the Palestinians are too fractured and weak to approach Israelis on an equal footing."
That's what Fatah's job is -- fracture the Palestinians for Israel!
