Mideast Peace Talks End, No Progress
Secretary Rice Says New Palestinian Coalition Government Hampered Talks With Israel
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In this photo released by the Palestinian Authority United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, left, walk together before a meeting at a hotel in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. (AP/Palestinian Authority,Rashidi)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, talks to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007. (AP/Palestinian Authority)
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice waves as she arrives to a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, not seen, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007. The U.S. and Israel have agreed ahead of a three-way meeting with the Palestinians to shun any new Palestinian government that does not renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing peace agreements, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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In a 90-second statement following the two-hour meeting, Rice said that the two sides exchanged views of the political future and agreed to hold another summit.
CBS News correspondent Robert Berger said expectations were low as Rice met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Rice said peace efforts were complicated after Abbas joined a Palestinian unity government with Hamas, a group that seeks Israel's destruction.
Neither Abbas nor Olmert joined Rice as she delivered her statement, and she left the room without taking questions from reporters. Israeli and Palestinian officials were not immediately available for comment.
Little progress was expected by the meeting, which was beset by U.S. and Israeli dissatisfaction with the Palestinian power-sharing deal. It got off to a lackluster start, with Rice, Abbas and Olmert clasping hands together and flashing polite smiles for the cameras in an unadorned hotel conference room.
The three met without any aides, except for Rice's Arabic interpreter, officials said. After about an hour, they moved to Rice's suite overlooking Jerusalem's Old City, continuing talks for another hour in a more comfortable setting.
The three leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the internationally backed "road map" peace plan and agreed that a solution to the conflict will not be "born of violence," Rice said.
"The president and prime minister agreed that they would meet together again soon. They reiterated their desire for American participation and leadership to overcome obstacles, rally regional and international support and move forward toward peace. In that vein, I expect to return to the region soon," Rice said after the meeting.
Olmert was to meet with members of his Kadima party later Monday to discuss the talks.
Rice reported no progress in restarting final-status talks, the ostensible purpose of the meeting when it was announced last month. Expectations for the talks plummeted last week after Abbas and the Islamic Hamas group, which controls the Palestinian parliament, agreed to a power-sharing deal that fell short of meeting international demands.
The international community has demanded that any Palestinian government recognize Israel, accept previous peace deals and renounce violence, but the coalition deal, forged earlier this month in Saudi Arabia, only pledges to "respect" past peace agreements.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the first third of Monday's meeting focused on the unity deal.
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Do you think United States should continues supporting the illegitimate and unjustified existance of Israel on the world map on th ecost of American money,American lives and USA herself because Americans are GOD-NEGLECTED and the EUROPEAN INVADERS IN PALESTINE are GOD-CHOSEN,because America is an UNHOLY LAND whereas occupied places in PALESTINE like TEL AVIV are HOLY LAND.
Why don't you go back to CHURCH and play THE FATHER,THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT GAME(GOD-LOVING,HOLY,RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN MAN is THE FATHER,that young innocent boy whose pant is pulled down in the name of GOD is THE SON and what is inserted in the BACK HOLE of that young innocent boy in the name of JESUS,is THE HOLY GHOST)
non muslims have asked muslims to return to Arabia
I NO LONGER SUPPORT THE OCCUPATION
The real %u2018occupation%u2019
1300 years of Arab occupation
Arabs, whose home is Arabia, have occupied and brutalized for centuries.
During that time, non muslims have...
been murdered en masse
had their land stolen
their holy places destroyed and desecrated
been sold into slavery
their women raped
their children butchered
and the arabs have the nerve to whine about "occupation" when non muslims fight back
I NO LONGER SUPPORT ISLAM OCCUPATION
FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS:
-UN and the world has asked Israel to return to her 1967 borders
Why does Israel refuse to return the occupied territories to their Palestinian owners?
Why does Israel continue to build settlements on occupied Palestinian land? And connect these settlements by a system of roads that crisscross Palestinian land and are for the exclusive use of Jews?
Why has Israel built a WaLL, not on their land, but on Palestinian land?
Why does Israel issue building permits to Jews in Jerusalem and eviction or demolition orders to Palestinians ?
A Majority of Israelis want peace, want the 1967 borders to be recognized (Israel's border today are not internationally recognized). Americans must support those Israelis, and refute the politics of the Nathenyahoo Likud Neocon Minority.
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52405
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Limits imposed on access to clip critical of Albright-run North Korea policy
http://drudgereport.com/flashma.htm
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Posted by lars008 at 05:20 PM : Feb 19, 2007
Liars008;
One can only wonder what gives with those of you dimwit neocons who know nothing more than hate-filled comments when posting here on this blog.
In case you haven't noticed, folks who post in the manner that bushrocks1, liebermann18,&co. have a VERY SHORT shelf life around here. Simply put, NO ONE here gives a rat's A$$ WHAT YOU THINK. You are merely showing the world what a childish crybaby you are. Grow up! Make sensible posts which convey your thoughts-ABSENT the HATE and VENOM, and perhaps, perhaps mind you, you will be around for "OUR AMUSEMENT", nothing more, for as I said earlier, no one cares what you think, really.
Posted by beehive21 at 06:11 PM : Feb 19, 2007
To expand on this poster's comments, essentially we have seen the disintegration of the 'middle ground' in the world. This all-or-nothing, Machiavellian society will destroy itself (and take most of mankind with it). The end of the world, as we know it, will happen before the end of Social Security (as we know it).
If Israel didn't have someone to blame for her failures, or to justify her continual terrorism against her neighbors, Israel would cease to exist as a "Jewish state."
More "Jews" live outside Israel than those who live in Israel. Zionists continually incite terrorism and violence against "Jews" in the vain attempt to motivate "Jews" to immigrate to Israel
It rarely works, so Israel pays people to convert and move to Israel. Most of them become illegal "settlers." Which further incites violence.
Zionists, most of whom are right wing Christians, including Pat Robertson & Billy Graham, are the greatest menace facing the civilized world today. Negotiating with Israel or Zionists is pointless. They want nothing more than to see global, nuclear war.
What and how durable security are the Israelis expecting when the root-base is deceived by strangulating the Democratically-elected Hamas-Government?
North Korea has agreed on a temporary basis, for longer perspectives, thenafter, pretty sure because of direct talks.
Nothing will work as long as the root-based population representatives will not be icnluded into the discussions and demonized. Not taking into account Hamas will just alienate a big fraction of the Palestinians. Global and just peace settlement in the Middle-East, is the only way to go.
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Well what, precisely? You are a stupid, stupid Billy Bob Baptist, whose brain has been warped by driving your beat up pick up truck listening to Toby Keith turned way too loud while drinking cheap rot gut beer as you stare at your Confedarate flag while viewing the world through your rose colored Pastor Ted ******* glasses.
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