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Rice taps Clinton, Carter for Middle East advice (Gleaning ideas? Huh?)
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/26/07 | Sue Pleming

Posted on 10/26/2007 7:39:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year.

Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday.

Their talks were "good and cordial," he said. They focused on the Middle East and not Carter's recent criticism of President George W. Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere.

A Soviet specialist, Rice also telephoned another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who tried, and ultimately failed, in his eight years in office to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together.

"She's trying to draw on the historical record and the experiences of others to see -- see what she can glean and how that may be applicable to the current day," McCormack said.

"She is a student of history and has a keen appreciation for how we can apply the lessons of history, what we can learn from those who have gone before us," he said.

Other sources of advice have been former U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross and ex-secretaries of state James Baker, Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright. Rice meets frequently for lunch with Albright, whose father taught Rice at Denver University.

Rice has made clear she will devote all her energy in the Bush administration's final 14 months to get what others have failed to attain in the past -- a viable, independent Palestinian state living side by side with a secure Israel.

The top U.S. diplomat, who has been to Israel and the Palestinian Territories seven times this year and returns next week, is preparing the ground for a Palestinian statehood conference expected to be held in late November or early December, in Annapolis, Maryland.

Clinton hosted many Middle East peace summits at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, even in his final month in office in January 2001, but never managed to get an Israeli-Palestinian deal.

Carter held secret negotiations at Camp David that led to a 1978 deal between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Rice also has been scouring historical records for pointers. During her summer break in August, she checked out volumes of historical background from the State Department's library on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, a department official said.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: advice; carter; clinton; middleeast; rice
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To: NormsRevenge
Dubya... in like Reagan... out like Carter.
61 posted on 10/28/2007 1:45:44 AM PDT by rantblogger
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To: NormsRevenge

Condi Rice is going to get us all killed if she keeps strong-arming Israel to give up more and more and more.


62 posted on 10/28/2007 11:14:55 AM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; nuconvert

What a load of crap: Condi Contacts Carter, Clinton to Screw Israel and Reward Murderers.

And our boy Bush put in Gates as SecDef, Gates who, with Zbigniew Brezinski (Carter's "genius" NSA), coauthored the 2004 CFR paper "Iran: Time for a New Approach" [see also, Chamberlain, Neville: "How I pursued a Road Map to Peace with Herr Hitler at Munich in 1938 and all I got was this lousy piece of paper"].

Let's be clear: Clinton dispatched Carville to Israel to get Ehud Barak [the sound a weasel makes puking] elected over Benjamin Netanyahu. Barak gave Arafat everything including the kitchen sink and Arafat gave back an Intifada in 2000 with lots of dismembered innocent Jews.

Carter gave the Ayatollah a green light and is a major-league Jew-hater, hey, it's the truth and everybody knows it.

So Condi, casting desperately about for reasons to squeeze Israel to surrender to genocidal killers who train their children to murder Jews, consults the biggest terrorist-enablers of our time.

Why mess up a good start (Saddam is in no position to pay Pali bombers' families 25K--he daid.)

No one here needs to be reminded that it was Israel who just went in and took out the Syrian reactor which Chia Ronery gave them--so. . . .

Let's catch that Spirit and take it to Natanz--that's your roadmap to peace, an ATO which includes a loadout of Massive Ordnance Penetrators--

Are we looking for a Noble Peace Prize, or real peace, like, the kind you get when you actually defeat the bad guy and break his toys.


63 posted on 10/28/2007 9:33:26 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: NormsRevenge

Is she planning to fertilize the deserts there with their manure . . .

or has she been taken over by an alien relative of the ones that consumed their brains?


64 posted on 10/28/2007 9:34:41 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: PhilDragoo
Are we looking for a Noble Peace Prize, or real peace, like, the kind you get when you actually defeat the bad guy and break his toys.

Exactly!! As our local Conservative voice Mark Davis says ...

Peace is what happens when the GOOD GUYS WIN !!!!


65 posted on 10/28/2007 9:56:31 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: PhilDragoo; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; nuconvert

Whoops!

I meant to copy y’all on my post there.

Bulleye post, Phil !! Thanks !!!


66 posted on 10/28/2007 9:58:41 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: y'all

Yikes! That should be “Bulls-eye”


67 posted on 10/28/2007 10:00:03 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’ve said from the beginning that the US should not be in the business of mediating a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. This is just one more reason why.


68 posted on 10/29/2007 5:11:38 AM PDT by Brilliant
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