Rice Urges Israel to Make Compromises for Peace

Source: Voice of America

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told American Jewish leaders Tuesday that Israel, confident of U.S. security backing, needs to make difficult choices necessary for peace with the Palestinians. Rice is preparing to host an international conference aimed at expediting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.

Rice says that what is at stake in the current diplomacy is nothing less that the future of the Middle East.

And while saying that all the parties need to be prepared to compromise, she focused on Israel, which she said enjoys unquestionable and unshakable U.S. security support and needs to make hard decisions, confidently, for the sake of peace.

Addressing a conference of American Jewish leaders and community activists in Nashville, Tennessee, Rice said violent extremists led by Iran are doing all they can to impose what she termed their hate-filled ideologies on the people of the Middle East.



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never in a thousand years...well if we last that long

Israel/Palestinians. That's about it, though.

It would take a very long time,..but it isn't going to come during this administration. I take any statement about peace, especially in the middle east, from the bush administration, with a grain of salt. Condi sucks. Israel needs to admit that Palestinians have legitimate greivances, that war crimes have been committed, they need to withdraw from some of the illegal settlements, and not using palestinian women and children for target practice might be a nice idea as well. Hey, things have settled down in Northern Ireland, lots of people thought that was hopeless.

leave the BC war machine a) without friends and allies to assist in such a project, b) without the trust of the roughly 35% of the world they have labeled as "Islamo-fascists" and subjected to preemptive war, torture, kidnap and threats of nuclear annihilation and c) without a trackrecord of accomplishing anything other than destruction that might inspire confidence in their ability to pull together a large complicated project.

So, much as I would love to see peace in the Middle East, I won't hold my breath on the likes of Condi and her boyfriend pulling it out of a hat all the sudden.

Maybe she should start with a slightly less ambitious project. Like, say, trying to get Uncle Dick to stop snarling all the time.