It’s no longer enough for us to be sitting down for lunch with terrorists in the Middle East, now we’re inviting then into this nation directly. The absurdity of Bush and Rice still agitating for a so-called Palestinian state after what happened with the Gaza Strip is indescribable. To say nothing of negotiating with Fatah, having been voted out of power and then literally kicked out of Gaza by Iran’s death squad Hamas.
Yeah, let’s bring ’em all to Annapolis and chat.
Doubts cloud U.S. talks set on Mideast
Abbas and Olmert will meet with Bush next week, but who else will attend is uncertain, as is the agenda.
The Bush administration announced Tuesday that it would hold a stripped-down international conference next week to begin negotiating the core issues that divide the Israelis and Palestinians, the first formal attempt to revive peace talks in seven years.
U.S. officials issued invitations to 49 nations and international organizations for the three-day gathering, to be attended by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The talks are aimed at building support for the wider peace negotiations and laying the groundwork for a Palestinian state in the next 14 months, before President Bush leaves office.
Mind you, what matters here to Bush isn’t whether this is a ludicrous waste of time; the only thing on his mind is getting something, anything done before he leaves office.
The prime sponsors — Bush, Abbas and Olmert — are seen as weak leaders with feeble domestic support. And despite consultations throughout the year, the Palestinians and Israelis have committed themselves to little more than to continue talking about the issues.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the chief force behind the effort, began the year hoping that Palestinians and Israelis could inject new interest into a stalled process by opening discussions of how an eventual Palestinian state would look…But the negotiating teams that began trying in early October to work out a crucial “joint statement” for the peace conference failed to agree on anything after 10 sessions — neither the principles that would underpin the negotiations, a timetable or a mechanism for monitoring compliance with certain obligations.
Classic Bush and Rice–running around in complete darkness trying to look busy, accomplishing nothing while making things worse. Like giving terrorists around the world one more piece of evidence that if you survive long enough as a mass murdering terrorist you, too, will be treated like a Stateman in the United States.
You are absolutely right, Tammy. This reeks of Bush desperately trying to find something on which to hang his proverbial hat. Since his attempts on “immigration reform” haven’t gone according to plan, his hopes rest on the Israelis and Palestinians to save his “legacy”.
Good luck with that, George.
Clueless Condi Rice, an incompetent Sec. of State, is taking her marching orders from her two mentors, James Baker and Brent Scowcroft – two Jew haters.