Condi Rice is less to blame than Ariel Sharon.
Ariel Sharon stabbed his constituents in the back.
He said he wouldn't, but then he did.
He said that he would allow a referendum first, then he didn't.
Ariel Sharon is a traitor, but he is the leader of Israel. What is Condi Rice supposed to do?
Personally, as a purely Israeli iniative, I think it's a mistake for the US to inject it into the "road map". I understand Condi's need to be evenhanded, but a some point even the US is going to have to recognize that without a cessation of incitement and a dismantling of terror, there's not going to be a "road map" or any other form of negotiatied settlement. Given the fact that the PA has specifically stated they're going to do neither, I think it's time the US either explains the rules to the palestinians, at the risk of being un-evenhanded, or if they've changed, explain the changes to Israel.
Amen to that. Israel's suicidal Socialist government is entirely to blame. They could simply say "STFU" and do what they please. But they don't. Bush and Rice can threaten whatever they want. Congress will never go along and punish Israel for the Bush family's Arabist fantasies, just as they ignored Bush's pathetic plea to fully fund the U.N. The American people support Israel. Sharon should know this. It is his fault alone, and not American pressure, that is to blame for Israel's slow-motion suicide.