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Rice: Israeli vow to ease travel curbs unfulfilled
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080506/FOREIGN/205229327/1003 ^ | May 6, 2008 | Nicholas Kralev and Joshua Mitnick

Posted on 05/06/2008 7:52:11 AM PDT by SJackson

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. will continue monitoring Israeli compliance with an April pledge to ease restrictions on Palestinian travel throughout the West Bank — a promise that Miss Rice indicated the Israelis had yet to fulfill.

Miss Rice made her remarks to reporters on her plane while returning to Washington yesterday from a brief trip to Israel and the West Bank.

"We really have to look more at qualitatively what is the effect," Miss Rice said.

"That means that our monitors get out among the communities, talk to people who are trying to get agricultural products to market, talk to people who are trying to get through checkpoints and really get a sense of how the movement and access are working," she said.

Last month, Israel said it had removed 60 barriers, completing a pledge made earlier to the U.S. to remove at least 50 of hundreds of barriers to Palestinian travel.

The claim was immediately challenged by Palestinians who called for the U.S. to go see for itself whether the action had any substantial effect.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel; rice

1 posted on 05/06/2008 7:52:11 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Hey Condi: Shut up


2 posted on 05/06/2008 7:52:57 AM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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Unfulfilled, or a movement of the bar?

3 posted on 05/06/2008 7:54:33 AM PDT by SJackson (I'm a lawyer, Barack is a lawyer, all our friends are lawyers, Michelle O.)
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To: SJackson
America can build a wall in Sadr city to protect our troops.
But innocent Israelis civilians must die according to the terrorist-supporter and financier, Dr. Rice.


4 posted on 05/06/2008 8:02:21 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: SJackson

Memo to Condi: Lawsa mercy, b!$%h, shut the hell up already!


5 posted on 05/06/2008 8:08:43 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("Typical 'bitter' 'White Male" whose vote the Dems now desperately want so bad - HA!)
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To: SJackson

Meanwhile, in Sderot...

6 posted on 05/06/2008 8:12:09 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (McCain calls it "radical islamic terrorism," the dems don't refer to it at all)
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To: SJackson

“Rice said the U.S. will continue monitoring Israeli”

Ah, but will Rice and the U.S. monitor the terrorists?


7 posted on 05/06/2008 8:15:43 AM PDT by JackRyanCIA (The Obama, Pelosi, Reid Triumvirate. Who said Americans are not stupid?)
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To: SJackson

Sadly, It has become easier, more expedient to appease our enemies and betray our friends than to fight the common foe.


8 posted on 05/06/2008 8:16:33 AM PDT by Blennos (High Point, NC)
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To: F15Eagle
“Hey Condi: Shut up”

She is such a disappointment, like her boss.

9 posted on 05/06/2008 8:16:43 AM PDT by JackRyanCIA (The Obama, Pelosi, Reid Triumvirate. Who said Americans are not stupid?)
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To: JackRyanCIA

She won’t be happy until more Jews or any other Israeli citizen is killed by her islamokazi buddies.

She claims to know her Bible but demands the door be opened for terrorists. To try and drive Israel to the table to give up the West Bank, and possibly divide Jerusalem.

She might as well have laid a wreath on terrorist Arafat’s grave along with Carter.


10 posted on 05/06/2008 9:45:09 AM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: F15Eagle
"She claims to know her Bible"

She wouldn't know the Bible if it bit her.
11 posted on 05/07/2008 4:31:25 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Hillary, Obama, McCain. Curley, Larry, Moe. Decisions, decisions,)
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To: Convert from ECUSA

WTH is wrong with Rice and her boss...desparate is a word that comes to mind. They have loss any semblance of rationality, the lame duck admin is a danger to all of us.


12 posted on 05/07/2008 6:37:43 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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