Rice to visit Israel, Palestine next week
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Washington, Sep 13 (Xinhua) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories Sep 18-20, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said at a briefing.'The secretary will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah for meetings with officials from Israel and the Palestinian authority in order to continue the discussions on advancing the development of a political horizon and the two-state solution,' McCormack said Wednesday.McCormack said that Rice would try to build upon some of the progress Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made during their recent discussions.'That is a very positive signal from the two sides that they are ready to move this process forward,' McCormack said.The Middle East peace process has been stalled due to the violence between the two sides as well as the internal struggles between Palestinian factions. (c) Indo-Asian News Service
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Misleading Article
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Honest News ,
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:19:14 GMT
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First of all, Rice isn't visiting "Palestine" as your headline asserts. There is no nation, city-state, whatever, called "Palestine". If you wish to fashion your own de facto "country" where there isn't one and has never been one, that's your prerogative, but please label your article "FICTION" because it certainly isn't factual news.
Second, the peace process isn't stalled due to "violence between the two sides". It is stalled because of terrorist acts that are committed by Muslims in the territories against Israelis on a daily basis. If Israel were to adopt the Muslim’s tactics and randomly launch volleys of rockets into Muslim population centers, or send suicide bombers to blow themselves up among Muslims in a marketplace or restaurant or city bus or mosque, or ambush and strafe school buses filled with children, then that could be reasonably termed "violence between the two sides". Instead, the peace process is stalled due to “continued violence by the Muslims against Israeli civilians”.
Can you imagine the world public outcry if Israel were to use the same terrorist tactics as the Muslims?
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