Rice may submit paper for Middle East peace
[Ted Belman. This is the first step in an imposed solution by Obama.]
Herb Keinon , THE JERUSALEM POST
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will likely present the next US administration with her own parameters for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, diplomatic officials in Jerusalem said on Tuesday, two days before she arrives for yet another visit to the region.
Rice is scheduled to arrive on Thursday for the 24th time as secretary of state, and then go to Sharm e-Sheikh on Sunday for a meeting of the Middle East Quartet. At that meeting, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian Authority negotiator Ahmed Qurei are expected to brief the Quartet representatives on where the negotiations currently stand.
Road Bumps ahead on Roadmap
United States President-elect Barack Obama will pressure Israel into more concessions to the Palestinian Authority and will reduce the probability of an attack on Iran, according to expert security analysts.
The next president stated during his campaign that he favors direct negotiations with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a move that would pull the rug from under any plans to use force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon through its uranium enrichment program.
[..] Regardless of who takes the job, the new administration will try to push full-speed ahead to reach the agreement that President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were not able to forge.
Eitan Haber, who was a negotiator for Rabin during the Oslo talks, wrote last month in Yediot Acharonot, “To be honest, Obama doesn’t make us sleep well at night. We are about to see a president who has nothing to do with Judaism, Jews, and the State of Israel.”
If you are right Ted, then it doesn’t matter much whether McCain or Obama became President.
Rice is the Secretary of State which department is the repository and protector of America’s overarching foreign, Middle East and Israel policy.
The President takes his lead from and is constrained by the American State Department’s overarching foreign policies, including the Middle East and Israel policy.
As I noted before, over the last 30 or so years, in spite of differences between Presidents as to their declared positions, their actions or degree of involvement in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, those Presidents all formulated their particular positions and policies within and consistent with, but not beyond those parameters.
Comment by Bill Narvey — November 5, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
True enough but Bush refrained from putting pressure on Israel for eight years.
Comment by Ted Belman — November 5, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
Are we living in the same world?
Comment by yamit82 — November 6, 2008 @ 2:02 am
Ted Belman:
Are you trying to kid us? Is this some sort of test to see if we are all awake? the U.S. has always been putting Israel under pressure to settle and Bush in the the last 4 years has ratched up that pressure.
Comment by h peskin — November 6, 2008 @ 2:28 am
A 1st-Yamit, Peskin and I agree.
Ted, I suspect the brevity of your comment did not accurately communicate what you were trying to say.
I presume you meant that Bush has not engaged in pressuring Israel in a sustained and concerted way, but that there have been times during his Presidency that he did put pressure on Israel to make concessions.
If that is not what you meant Ted, what did you mean by your statement #2?
Comment by Bill Narvey — November 6, 2008 @ 9:03 am
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