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US 'wants Palestinian state now'  
 
Ms Rice is making her seventh trip to the region this year 
The US secretary of state has said it is time for a Palestinian state to
be founded, and that the US will put its full weight behind such efforts. 
Condoleezza Rice said reaching a two-state solution was a priority for her
and US President George Bush. 
Ms Rice was speaking from the West Bank, where she has been trying to get
agreement for a peace summit in the US. 
Meanwhile the Israeli PM has hinted he may consider giving up Palestinian
districts in Jerusalem in a peace deal. 
Ehud Olmert told parliament "legitimate questions" could be asked about
the Israeli annexing of outlying Palestinian neighbourhoods in East
Jerusalem following the 1967 war. 
Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state of
Palestine, and the issue is one of the most sensitive and intractable of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 
'It is time' 
"Frankly it is time for the establishment of a Palestinian state," Ms Rice
told reporters in a news conference which she held with the Palestinian
leader Mahmoud Abbas. 
 
Quartet's 'deaf ears'  
She said the US regarded a two-state solution "as absolutely essential for
the future, not just of Palestinians and Israelis but also for the Middle
East and indeed for American interests". 
She said Mr Bush would make finding a resolution a top priority of his
time in office, and that she would devote her "last ounce of energy" to
the issue. 
Ms Rice said she wanted agreement on the peace summit, set to be held in
Annapolis, Maryland - but that it would have to be "a serious and
substantive conference that will advance the cause of a Palestinian state. 
"We frankly have better things to do than invite people to Annapolis for a
photo op," said Ms Rice. 
The Palestinians have warned that if no tightly-worded text is agreed on
which to base talks, they will not attend. The Israelis say they do not
believe an agreed text is necessary. 
Despite Ms Rice's assertion that the current diplomacy represented "the
most serious effort to end this conflict in many, many years", the BBC's
Aleem Maqbool in Ramallah cautions that huge differences remain between
the two sides. 
Ms Rice will now meet other regional leaders. She will need to convince
them, too, that a peace conference will be worth turning up for, says our
correspondent. 
Difficult negotiations 
At the same news conference, Mr Abbas said Israeli and Palestinian
negotiators were working together. 
"We are working on a joint document with the Israeli side. The document
will set out the basis of the solutions to the final status issues:
Jerusalem, borders, settlements, refugees, security, water and bilateral
relations," he said. 
 
The Palestinians want detailed agreement and a timetable for the
implementation of solutions to some of the key disputes, while the
Israelis want a broader, more general document with no timetable. The
disagreement has threatened to derail the conference entirely. 
But on Monday, Mr Olmert appeared to suggest he might be open to
compromise on one of the thorniest issues - the status of Jerusalem. 
He questioned the logic of a decision to include Palestinian areas within
the city's expanded boundaries after Israel captured them in the 1967
Middle East war. 
"Was it necessary to annex the Shufat refugee camp, al-Sawahra, Walajeh
and other villages and state that this is also Jerusalem?" Mr Olmert asked
in a speech to the Knesset. 
"I must admit, one can ask some legitimate questions on the issue," he
told parliament. 
 
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 US 'wants Palestinian state now'
eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheehehehehehehehehehe (si sentono le
risate degli israeliani fin qua in Italia)

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infatti. Gentaglia come la Rice e Blair che si occupano dei
Palestinesi... il colpo di grazia per quel popolo.

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Chi ha già poco ha poco da perdere, ma gli israeliani stanno rifiutando quella 
che forse è l'ultima occasione.

occasione.
Certo, certo.... :)
*pat pat*
-Stefano

 quella che forse è l'ultima occasione.
"Le oscure profezie di Persio"
Vol III, cap XIV, pag 3225
Tb
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E' una grande mitzvah essere sempre felici (R. Nachman di Breslavia)