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Report: Rice compares life in U.S. south to Palestinians' plight
By Haaretz Service
Tags: peace, George Bush, Annapolis 

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a closed meeting of Arab and Israeli envoys in Annapolis this week that her childhood in the segregated U.S. south helped her to understand the plight of Palestinians and the fear felt by Israelis, the Dutch representative to the summit, Franz Timmermans, told the Washington Post on Thursday.

"I know what its like to hear that you can't use a certain road, or pass through a checkpoint because you are a Palestinian. I know what it is like to feel discriminated against and powerless," Rice was reported as saying.

Rice described her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama during the era of segregation and the killing of four young girls in the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Rice said the bombing, which killed one of her classmates, helps her understand the fear of terrorism felt by Israelis.
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"Like Israelis, I understand what it's like to go to sleep not knowing if you will be hurt in an explosion, the feeling of terror walking around your own neighborhood, or walking to your house of prayer," Rice was quoted in the Washington Post as saying.

The Washington Post's article dealt with events that took place behind closed doors at the Annapolis summit on Tuesday.

According to the Post, Rice reportedly closed her statements by saying that both sides in the conflict had endured great pain and for far too long.

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      1.   Rice is clueless! 13:16  |  Avraham 29/11/07
      2.   Condi completely misses the mark 13:17  |  Lila 29/11/07
      3.   "Draculas Daughter & Gumbo"! 13:17  |  Stephen. 29/11/07
      4.   2 comments 13:22  |  Obervant Jew 29/11/07
      5.   Her idiocy and stupidity has no limit 13:26  |  Genuine Tosefta 29/11/07
      6.   Livni is not a leper, she is a vile occupier, 13:29  |  Arab FM 29/11/07
      7.   nebbich 13:38  |  ron 29/11/07
      8.   How dare Rice compare discrimination against blacks in the U.S... 13:49  |  David Eli 29/11/07
      9.   Ms. Rice. One sided? 13:49  |  Fahmi Natour 29/11/07
      10.   But we do discriminate 14:11  |  J 29/11/07
      11.   Ms Rice equates her childhood with Palestinians plight 14:15  |  Fredy Ross 29/11/07
      12.   Condi is starting to wake up... 14:26  |  Rose 29/11/07
      13.   J`s comment 14:28  |  IES 29/11/07
      14.   Apartheidic and criminal zionist acts have NO PARALLEL 14:29  |  Arthur 29/11/07
      15.   Rice doesn`t understand a thing!quite early on she made up her 14:29  |  lakshmi 29/11/07
      16.   To IES 14:39  |  J 29/11/07
      17.   Send Rice to Palestine 15:11  |  Artie 29/11/07
      18.   Condi Rice for President 15:17  |  Paul Wood 29/11/07
      19.   Who could trust that logic as a fair mediator? 15:20  |  r 29/11/07
      20.   What do you expect from a Hoover institute fool? 15:21  |  David Teich 29/11/07
      21.   lakshmi #15, thanks for the help to Zionism 15:26  |  Asher 29/11/07
      22.   US BLACKS INSULTED BY RICE !! 15:27  |  N.Ayzal 29/11/07
      23.   lakshmi is german 15:28  |  PALESTINIANPEACELOVE 29/11/07
      24.   Israel + USA = Racist White Immigrants.... 15:31  |  ( o ) ( o ) 29/11/07
      25.   # 15 lakshmi 15:31  |  Lynn 29/11/07
      26.   To J 15:34  |  IES 29/11/07
      27.   No parallel indeed-Arabs killed 5 million people in last 60 years 15:34  |  Genuine Tosefta 29/11/07
      28.   Blacks carried bombs?? 15:34  |  Jewish State 29/11/07
      29.   Was Martin Luther King a guerilla leader 15:35  |  Herbert Kaine 29/11/07
      30.   who is arguing that rice is a misfit in the job 15:37  |  victor hardman 29/11/07
      31.   I dodn`t remember the blacks in the south blowing up on buses 15:37  |  Zev 29/11/07
      32.   Get A Clue, Paul 15:43  |  D. Chandler 29/11/07
      33.   Not much of a comparison 15:48  |  American Patriot 29/11/07
      34.   Mohammad Teddy Bear teacher jailed in Sudan - go comment there 15:50  |  Genuine Tosefta 29/11/07
      35.   Genuine Tosefta#27...TELL US ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE ZIONISTS 15:59  |  TrippleJump 29/11/07
      36.   #2 Rice 15:59  |  Walter 29/11/07
      37.   Livni and # 6 16:03  |  Howard 29/11/07
      38.   American Parrot sounds like a devout of the 9/11 Peace religion 16:03  |  Genuine Tosefta 29/11/07
      39.   Paul Wood 16:05  |  Paul in Chicago 29/11/07
      40.   David in Rehevot 16:07  |  Jim 29/11/07
      41.   Emotional short circuit by Rice is dangerous. 16:10  |  Fortuna Benmayor 29/11/07
      42.   Half Cooked Rice 16:11  |  Straight Talk 29/11/07
      43.   D. Chancellor 16:13  |  Scott 29/11/07
      44.   # 31, Zev, 16:15  |  Leroy 29/11/07
      45.   Want to know crimes? 270 million killed and 100million enslaved 16:16  |  Genuine Tosefta 29/11/07
      46.   MLK and Charles Manson: can you tell the difference? 16:16  |  Ilan 29/11/07
      47.   American Patriot in NY, 16:19  |  Walter 29/11/07
      48.   #32 D Chandler 16:19  |  Paul Wood 29/11/07
      49.   CrippleJump,whatevever I can tell you pales in comparison to Arab 16:21  |  Genuine Tosefta 29/11/07
      50.   Condi`s pseudo sympathy 16:42  |  Kovacic 29/11/07
      51.   RICE IS DUMBER THEN I THOUGHT! 16:44  |  THE LIBRARIAN 29/11/07
      52.   Avraham...yse it goes back since the times that 16:58  |  MAN 29/11/07
      53.   RICE: PROOF OF GENETIC INFERIORITY 17:00  |  shaul shaulson 29/11/07
      54.   Observant Jew - Get a clue 17:01  |  MAN 29/11/07
      55.   "Like Israelis, I understand what it`s like" 17:02  |  Yosemite 29/11/07
      56.   Apartheid and its discontents 17:13  |  Tosefta 29/11/07
      57.   The Average AIRPLANE TRAVELLER Faces More.... 17:16  |  Klaudia 29/11/07
      58.   Rice spouts her usual anti Israel bias 17:25  |  Baruch Hashem 29/11/07
      59.   Rice lies 17:27  |  alan howard 29/11/07
      60.   Rice has always been an Arabist 17:34  |  SystemF 29/11/07
      61.   Paul Wood, quintessential case of moral deriliction 17:35  |  Jake 29/11/07
      62.   #29, Hebert Kaine, your post is classic! 17:37  |  Jake 29/11/07
      63.   lakshmi #15 17:38  |  Yakov 29/11/07
      64.   # 18 Paul Wood 17:45  |  Christian Van Nieker 29/11/07
      65.   #53 Shaul in J"lm 17:48  |  Michael 29/11/07
      66.   Congolizza Rice 17:48  |  Artie 29/11/07
      67.   Chip on her shoulder 17:49  |  Steven 29/11/07
      68.   #22 Say Ayzal 17:53  |  ballistic 29/11/07
      69.   Freedom movements are not monolithic.... 17:54  |  Teresa-Maria (Tess) 29/11/07
      70.   #38 , Jenuine Tosefta 17:55  |  Harold 29/11/07
      71.   Rose- question? 17:58  |  Teresa-Maria (Tess) 29/11/07
      72.   Say Herbert Kaine at #29 17:58  |  ballistic 29/11/07
      73.   Genuine Tosefta#49...TELL US ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE ZIONISTS 17:59  |  TrippleJump 29/11/07
      74.   #38 Hey Genuine 18:00  |  ballistic 29/11/07
      75.   Martin Luther King/Condi 18:01  |  Raoul 29/11/07
      76.   #67 Steven in UK "chip on her shoulder" 18:06  |  ballistic 29/11/07
      77.   Fake ("Genuine") Tosefta Alert 18:07  |  Tosefta 29/11/07
      78.   #60 Say System F 18:08  |  ballistic 29/11/07
      79.   Maybe Rice should ask herself why few Jews lived in her US south 18:14  |  Dr. L. Brnd 29/11/07
      80.   #75 Say Raoul 18:15  |  ballistic 29/11/07
      81.   33 AmPatriot is a misnomer...would you being in the US Army 18:17  |  The Equalizer 29/11/07
      82.   Rice has got chutzbah... 18:20  |  bat yam 29/11/07