Rice Maintains Heat on Israel -Tobias Buck
On her latest trip to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Rice offered more direct criticism of Israel's policies than on previous visits...
(Financial Times-UK)
Rice Presses Israel on Roadblocks -Anne Gearan
At a news conference with Abbas on Sunday, Rice demanded that Israel do more to ease life for Palestinians in the West Bank by removing roadblocks.
Israel says they are needed to prevent would-be attackers from crossing into Israel. There was one suicide bombing last year and two so far this year. That's down from a high of 59 in 2002, the year Israel began building a separation barrier and multiplying its military checkpoints and roadblocks.
(AP/Washington Post)
Mofaz: Take Jerusalem Off Negotiating Table
Jerusalem must be taken off the negotiating table, Transportation Minister and former defense minister Shaul Mofaz said.
On her latest trip to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Rice offered more direct criticism of Israel's policies than on previous visits...
(Financial Times-UK)
Rice Presses Israel on Roadblocks -Anne Gearan
At a news conference with Abbas on Sunday, Rice demanded that Israel do more to ease life for Palestinians in the West Bank by removing roadblocks.
Israel says they are needed to prevent would-be attackers from crossing into Israel. There was one suicide bombing last year and two so far this year. That's down from a high of 59 in 2002, the year Israel began building a separation barrier and multiplying its military checkpoints and roadblocks.
(AP/Washington Post)
Mofaz: Take Jerusalem Off Negotiating Table
Jerusalem must be taken off the negotiating table, Transportation Minister and former defense minister Shaul Mofaz said.
Mofaz said that reaching a final status agreement with the Palestinians by the end of the year would force Israel to give up on its very foundations and "sell" its national assets. He stressed that Israel must ensure it has defensible borders that can withstand every remaining test.
(Jerusalem Post)
Rice's Next Disaster -Marty Peretz
Fifty Israeli trucks attempting to deliver fuel and food supplies to Palestinians in Gaza came under Palestinian mortar fire, Israel Radio reported.
(Jerusalem Post)
Rice's Next Disaster -Marty Peretz
Fifty Israeli trucks attempting to deliver fuel and food supplies to Palestinians in Gaza came under Palestinian mortar fire, Israel Radio reported.
Jerusalem should not endanger one Israeli life to deliver anything to Gaza. It shouldn't have been making deliveries during the last two years when Hamas and comrades were firing missiles and rockets into the towns and kibbutzim of the Negev and into the ancient port city of Ashkelon. Gaza can get all the fuel and food it needs from Egypt, if the Egyptians want to provide it.
Ms. Rice was a none-too-passive party to the 2005 full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. That turned into a disaster. Now she is working on her next disaster and trying to trim from the borders of Israel some measly bits of territory to grease the wheels.
Ms. Rice was a none-too-passive party to the 2005 full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. That turned into a disaster. Now she is working on her next disaster and trying to trim from the borders of Israel some measly bits of territory to grease the wheels.
(New Republic)
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