Rice tells Abbas U.S. will expand peace drive

[maddezmom]

Rice said the United States was "deeply committed" to finding ways to accelerate the stalled "road map" peace plan in order to "show to the Palestinian people how we might move toward the establishment of a Palestinian state."

Rice offered no details on how Washington would expand its involvement. Israeli officials said Rice was exploring several options, including the creation of a Palestinian state with temporary borders, an idea rejected by Abbas.

Rice offered no details on how Washington would expand its involvement. Israeli officials said Rice was exploring several options, including the creation of a Palestinian state with temporary borders, an idea rejected by Abbas.

"I have stressed to the secretary of state our rejection of temporary solutions, including provisional borders for our state," Abbas said with Rice at his side at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1498896.htm

Rice: U.S. will deepen role in Mideast peace process
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday that Washington would deepen its involvement in trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"I have heard loud and clear the call for deeper American engagement in these processes," Rice said in a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after they held talks in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

"You will have my commitment to do precisely that," she told Abbas.

more;http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1467943.htm

Abbas tells Rice: Temporary Palestinian state opposed
POSTED: 5:45 a.m. EST, January 14, 2007
Story Highlights• President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
• Rice says U.S. will deepen its involvement in Mideast peace efforts
• Meeting of different Palestinian factions scheduled for Sunday in Gaza

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday he opposes the establishment of a provisional Palestinian state in temporary borders.

Such an idea was floated last month by Israel's foreign minister and is also part of the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan.

Abbas said Sunday that he opposes the idea.

"We told Secretary Rice that we reject any temporary solutions, including a transitional stage, because we don't see it as a realistic option," Abbas told a joint news conference with Rice.

Abbas also said he is determined to go ahead with early elections if the latest round of coalition talks with Hamas fails.

Rice responded by reiterating the U.S. commitment to the internationally backed "road map" peace plan that calls for the creation of a Palestinian state.

more:http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/14/rice.mideast.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[SpiralHawk]

1. More bombs + more troops = more peace. republicon logic

Hate is love
war is peace
ignorance is strength

Big BushCo Skull & Boner Occult Cabal loves you.

[hang a left]

4. Rice talking about a "peace drive"

is a scarey thing.

That is the first thing I thought when I saw the headline.

Can't be good.

[rodeodance]

2. condi should have done some hard shuttle diplomacy for the

last 6 years!!

[maddezmom]

3. did you see the news conference?

She was boasting that this was her 8-9 trip and last time she was there it was her birthday(or maybe the time before the last time...) :nopity:

[annabanana]

5. Her BIRTHDAY?? What, is she, TWELVE?

This is not the talk of a serious person.

ALSO.. Anything this administration labels a "roadmap" is suspect. It usually means "If you will walk this tightrope over this vat of boiling horror, while bowing and scraping and acceding to our demands, we might not bomb the shit out of you."

[JoFerret]

6. Prize for the Orwellian headline of the day

War is peace.

[tanyev]

7. Peace drive. Is that what we're doing?

Then how come we detained the guy that wrote Peace Train?

[The Wielding Truth]

8. Peace Drive!! WTF Chaos and death is necessary for oil profits. AHHHH

:puke: :mad: :wtf: :spank:
This NOT OUR America!

[struggle4progress]

9. Abbas snubs Rice effort to revive road map (Guardian)

Conal Urquhart in Gaza City
Monday January 15, 2007
The Guardian

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said yesterday that she was going to "deepen" American involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and "accelerate" progress on the road map.

Speaking in Ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, Ms Rice made no concrete proposals on how to re-embark on the road map, which envisaged a gradual path to peace and Palestinian statehood but which has largely been ignored since it was proposed in 2002.

Mr Abbas went on to reject a central plank of the plan: "We reaffirmed to Secretary Rice our rejection of any temporary or transitional solutions, including a state with temporary borders, because we don't see it as a realistic option." ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1990371,00.html