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Rice dismissed suggestions that the conference was a political ploy.

"There are probably easier foreign policy tasks to take on than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," she said. "The timing comes down to what it is we need to do to give moderate forces in the region a boost and to deal a blow to forces of extremism."

The conference has not been scheduled, but should occur by year's end, she said.

She said the administration will ask Congress for more money to support the Palestinian government. She did not disclose the amount.

Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, told parliament that the conference would mark the beginning of the end of his country's conflict with the Palestinians.

"I don't know if the time of peace is yet ripe," Olmert said in Jerusalem. "But I know that it is my duty as the prime minister Israel to do everything in order to promote that time and at least try and bring it closer."

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  • Posted By: TheGardener @ 01/11/2009 12:29:43 PM

    " The protester shouted that Rice was a "war criminal" and should be taken to The Hague, home of an international war crimes tribunal."

    Playing the appeaser tends to produce the above mentioned. In due time, History may tell a very different story about this administration. But,what is the true burden by which this Admin had to live to appease the Oil Barons of the MidEast? Something is just not kosher about educated people repeating historic misrepresentation for 7 years: "Islam is Peace"...what is hidden behind this appeasement? The Media has been silent on this issue too. Why?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFgZBAcKcQA&feature=PlayList&p=D91A106DBB6988D6&index=2

  • Posted By: TheGardener @ 01/11/2009 12:16:05 PM

    Two major booboos of the present Admin.: 1) Islam is peace 2) Dreaming of peace with neighbors who want you to be non-existent.

    The Mid-East peace process is in jeopardy..words of a dreamer/living in denial... Camp David, shaking hands with Arafat, giving him a Nobel Price for Peace and still "No Peace". The biggest slap in the face of other cultures and lifestyles was after 911,W utters the words..."Islam is peace"...while History proves him wrong. 1400 years of Islamic History proves him utterly wrong...and the Media was silent! Why do we lie to ourselves? Why do we play this game of the hypocrite and expect this attitude not to backfire? Amazing to observe human behaviour being told to live in denial of the most basics of historic knowledge.

  • Posted By: Tyler57 @ 04/13/2008 11:13:14 AM

    Admiral Fallon for President!

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