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Although Rice refused to absolutely rule out the chance of an agreement by year's end,her remarks reflect the first time that an official of the Bush administration has publiclynot held out hope that the deadline could be met."We'll see where they are at the end of the year," said Rice, vowing to "work on this withthe parties until the day that we leave."Fighting irrelevance and a ticking clock, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceembarked Wednesday on yet another Middle East peacemaking trip, hoping to securefragile Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and leave a viable process for the incomingObama administration.With just 77 days left in office, Rice was making her eighth trip to Israel and thePalestinian territories since the parties set a year-end goal of reaching a peace deal atlast November's Annapolis peace conference. She will also visit Egypt and Jordan toshore up Arab support for the talks.Meeting the target date for an agreement is now highly unlikely, especially with politicaluncertainty in Israel and the lame duck Bush administration's waning influence, but Riceintends to press the two sides to carry on and, if possible, come up with an outline ofhow they can move ahead after January 20.The Israeli-Palestinian situation is one of several Middle East trouble spots that theBush administration will bequeath to President-elect Barack Obama. The war in Iraq,Iran's nuclear program and troubles with Syria are among the most troublesome.Obama has yet to offer specifics on how will approach the peace process, but hisforeign policy advisers include many former Clinton administration officials who wereactively involved in the 2000 Camp David talks and may be eager to re-enter the fray.Still, Rice has made clear she will not give up on the push for an Israeli-Palestinian dealwhile she is on the job."Until that moment when I leave office, I will leave no stone unturned to see if we canfinally resolve this conflict," she told an audience at a Palestinian investment forum lastmonth in Washington.Those comments were her last substantive remarks on the peace process and in them,she made the same twin challenges to Israel and the Palestinians she has made onmore than 20 largely fruitless journeys to the region during her tenure as secretary ofstate: Israel should loosen its grip on the West Bank and the Palestinians should tightentheirs on terrorists.
"The parties need to redouble their efforts," Rice said.The talks that began in the US last year have produced few tangible results and areexpected to be placed on hold for at least several months during the US transition fromBush to Obama. In addition, Israel will hold elections on February 10 and there arequestions about the tenure of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas whoseterm technically expires in January.Rice will see Abbas and outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert along with the chiefnegotiators from both sides before heading to the Red Sea resort of Sharm e-Sheikh inEgypt where top officials from the international diplomatic "quartet" on the Middle Eastwill be briefed on the status of the talks on Sunday.Any results officially reported to the quartet - the European Union, Russia, the UnitedStates and the United Nations - from Palestinian-Israeli talks so far could become abasis for future negotiations, even after the Israeli election.Time for Israel to appoint a king, scholar sayshttp://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=17448Renowned Israeli biblical scholar and historian David Solomon last week said thatconditions in Israel today are ripe for replacing democracy with theocratic monarchy andappointing a king.Speaking to Israel National Radio, Solomon said that the leadership and religious crisescurrently facing Israel mirror those during the time of the Prophet Samuel.Millennia ago, the people of Israel turned to Samuel to help them replace their form ofgovernment with a monarchy in order to alleviate the nation's problems.Just as then, many Israelis today might view a theocratic monarchy as a viable answerto Israel's "disastrous absence of genuine political and spiritual and religiousleadership," said Solomon.Will Israel strike at Iran before Obama takes over?http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910057503&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullOn December 8, 1988, under the cover of night, IDF warplanes, helicopters, guidedmissilefrigates and an elite force of Flotilla 13 naval commandos and Golani Brigadereconnaissance fighters infiltrated Lebanon. Their target was a cave-basedheadquarters 20 km. south of Beirut, serving the Popular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine-General Command, headed by Ahmed Jibril.The raid, code-named Operation Blue and Brown, involved the first known use of the
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