In the WTF does this indicate department:
A senior diplomatic official called the cancellation of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's Israel visit unprecedented, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.
According to the official, Washington's decision could be interpreted in the region as meaning that the US believed the peace process could not move forward due to the situation in Israel.
However, Dov Weisglass, who served as an adviser to former prime minister Ariel Sharon, told Army Radio on Tuesday morning that Rice's decision to cancel her trip may have been connected to situation in the PA, not necessarily the Israeli government alone.
Weisglass noted that with the current anarchy in the Gaza Strip and West Bank due to the infighting between the Fatah and Hamas factions, it would be difficult to determine which officials to hold talks with.
Meanwhile, sources in Jerusalem expressed surprise over the cancellation, the report said, since meetings with the US Embassy had taken place just the day before in preparation for Rice's visit.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has cancelled a trip to Israel planned for next week due to the unstable political situation in Israel, the Foreign Ministry confirmed late Monday night.
Rice was scheduled to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders following a stop-off in Moscow.
US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday that the cancellation would not get in the way of US efforts to move forward with Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
"It's a change in plans, yes," McCormack admitted, but added that the US would "continue efforts to advance the Israeli-Palestinian track."
"The political situation in Israel has become a bit more complex in the near term," said McCormack.
Tension has risen between government officials following the release of the Winograd's interim report into the Second Lebanon War. Many government officials have called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down.
On Thursday, 150,000 people participated in a mass demonstration at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square in an attempt to get Olmert and his government to resign.
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realwest here (don't know for how long before computer starts typing on it's own, again) and I must keep this short, but I think the reason for Rice's cancellation was fairly simple: NOBODY knows who "speaks" for the Pali's and with Olmert APPARENTLY in political BOILING water, it could be literally true that she didn't know with whom to meet to produce any sort of agreement or attempted agreement either with the Pali's or Israel.
ReplyDelete'Course I'm a looong way from an expert on interal Israeli politics, but from all that I've read, I do believe that she coulnd't find any value in meeting with Olmert if he's gonna be 86'd soon by the Israeli's and, of course, there is that sort constant, nagging problem of who the hell speaks for the Pali's.
Just don't think there's much more to it than that.
Realwest again - does anyone know if Rice decided to go ahead and meet with Syria?
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ReplyDeleteShe should know not to meet with Pali ONE to begin with....
Real i dont know nothing has come up on it I will check the white house website though
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