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Last update - 20:59 27/12/2007 What's the hurry? By Aluf Benn (Jerusalem) & Shmuel Rosner (Washington) Tags: Condoleezza Rice The Annapolis summit and the efforts to revive the peace process have exacerbated the tension that already existed between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Olmert's personal charm doesn't work on Rice, and the Prime Minister's Office is anxious about her tendency to push ahead too quickly with political contacts. The latest point of friction had to do with the conference of donor countries to the Palestinians that took place in Paris last week. Rice wanted to proceed from the conference to Jerusalem, to make sure that the political process hadn't withered and died after the fanfare in Annapolis. There was a decision already. What made her change her mind and not come? One version has it that she received a message from the White House not to rush things, to give the Israelis and Palestinians some time to work things out without her. Olmert's bureau denies that Israel intervened to block Rice's visit. David Welch, her aide on Middle East affairs, who had visited Israel a few days before that, felt that in any event, she wouldn't be able to achieve much with a lightning visit so soon after Annapolis. The Americans say they don't want Rice's visits to become just a worthless routine. It was clear that this time, nothing much could come of it. Advertisement In private conversations - and as she said in Annapolis - Rice tends to compare the Israeli occupation in the territories to the racial segregation that used to be the norm in the American South. The Israel Defense Forces checkpoints where Palestinians are detained remind her of the buses she rode as a child in Alabama, which had separate seats for blacks and whites. This is an uncomfortable comparison, of course, for the Israelis, who view it as "over-identification" on her part with Palestinian suffering. For some leaders of American Jewish organizations, who weren't all that fond of Rice to begin with, her use of this image was the last straw. Rice is now marked as an enemy. It's also easier for them to blame her, rather than the president, for an approach that's not to their liking. But Rice's anger at Israel really derives from more current events: She was deeply offended at the height of the Second Lebanon War, while preparing to leave for Beirut to pull together a cease-fire, when the IDF killed Lebanese civilians during the bombing of Kafr Kana. Her trip was canceled at the last minute, the war went on for more than another two weeks, and some who know her say that Rice never forgave Israel for this slap in the face. In recent months, she's been heard grumbling about Israel's foot-dragging in carrying out good-will gestures toward Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The tension became more open in connection with the Annapolis summit, say Israeli sources. Rice changed the title of the event from "an international meeting" to a "summit," despite Israel's express objections. She supported the Palestinian position, which called for the establishment of a Palestinian state in tandem with the implementation of the road map. Israel balked, and managed to win consent for "sequential" implementation - that is, first a war on terror and then a Palestinian state. When the leaders met with President George W. Bush prior to the official start of the summit, Olmert said that if he had any disagreements with Rice, he would turn to the president. "You'll get the same answer from him," Rice said. Olmert insisted on his right to appeal to the White House. Bush listened and didn't say anything, but officials in Washington advise that one shouldn't attach too much importance to this silence. Bush likes Olmert, but he likes Rice a lot more. Something very serious would have to happen for the president to override her authority. And she's smart enough not to clash with Israel without first checking with the president just how far she can go. Israel needs an unofficial channel of communication, a "Rice bypass road," to the White House. Steve Hadley, the national security advisor, who was Rice's deputy during Bush's first term, is very close to her and wouldn't operate behind her back. And there is no Jewish leader in the Republican Party who, like Max Fisher in the past, has sufficient enough influence to just phone up the president and quietly take care of things. Most Jewish Republicans who have a degree of access to the White House are not fans of the political process, and some are busy promoting the campaign against a division of Jerusalem, an effort that Olmert perceives as a personal campaign against him and in favor of Benjamin Netanyahu. Which basically leaves Olmert as the guy who can communicate with Bush. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is maintaining her own channel of communication with her American counterpart, even if it appears that their initial mutual infatuation has faded. At the Prime Minister's Office, the focus is now on Bush's January 9th visit. Expected to top the agenda is the Iranian threat and the ramifications of the American intelligence report that said Iran is not planning to develop a military nuclear capability. On the Palestinian issue, those in Olmert's circle believe that Bush will make do with some nice words and not bug his hosts with demands to evacuate outposts and remove checkpoints. Rice will have to deal with these troubles after Bush goes back home. And she apparently has every intention of doing so. Thanks for dinner On Wednesday afternoon, Olmert bid farewell to his spokesperson to the foreign press, Miri Eisen, and as usual, peppered his talk with plenty of jokes and soccer anecdotes. He patted the head of Yiftah, Eisen's oldest child, and described how he showed him the autographed shirt he received from Ronaldinho, the Brazilian soccer star. Afterward, he met with the five members of the Meretz Knesset faction. It's hard to believe that on the same day, the 2008 state budget was passed in the Knesset, five days before the deadline, without creating any political noise or revolts within the coalition. "The days of the budget" used to be a synonym for crisis. Not with Olmert: This is the second year in a row that the budget has quietly slipped through the political system. Before the good-bye party for Eisen, the prime minister sat down with Finance Minister Roni Bar-On, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit and budget director Kobi Haber. No tension or stress was evident on their faces when they emerged from their meeting. The vote in the Knesset plenum at the end of the evening was postponed by an hour, so Olmert would have time to attend the conference of the Or Yarok (Green Light) road safety organization. Obviously, he didn't feel any pressure to be present beforehand to iron out any last-minute problems. "You see, there is a functioning government," Olmert boasts. It's certainly easier to get a budget passed when the economy is booming and the state is collecting a lot of taxes. And there's a personal aspect, too: Olmert, the "professor of politics," as Meretz members called him at the start of their meeting, is more skilled than his predecessors at managing his relations with the coalition and the opposition. He doesn't portray his ministers as a bunch of honor-obsessed idiots, as previous prime ministers have done, and the ministers don't complain about his insensitivity and arrogance. Nor do they have any reason to. Cabinet secretary Oved Yehezkel, the coalition's maintenance man, is always at their disposal. Any time a minister wishes to speak to or meet with the prime minister, he can expect an immediate response. One minister from Labor, who was invited with his wife to have dinner with Ehud and Aliza Olmert, received the following treatment: The prime minister showed up right on time, even though he was busy with security matters (of which the minister was aware). Earlier that evening, there'd been an unflattering report about Olmert on television, but the prime minister ignored it and chatted with his guests as if nothing had happened. He even declined to take a call from his media advisor. The next day, Olmert phoned the minister and told him that he'd had a wonderful evening. Another day passed, and Aliza Olmert called the minister's wife to thank her for the lovely evening. And as if that weren't enough, on Sunday Yehezkel caught up with the minister as he was on his way to the cabinet meeting and said something like: I don't know what you two did, but he (Olmert) hasn't stopped talking about you for the past three days. Instead of speaking to the public and granting interviews to the press - an approach that proved detrimental to Barak and Netanyahu as prime ministers - Olmert invests his time in the "100 most influential people" who will affect his political survival. He knows how to talk to win their sympathy. True, Olmert isn't yet popular in the polls, but his government is showing some impressive political stability - so much so that the looming Winograd report doesn't even seem that threatening. The threat of early elections is also fading, as Minister Haim Ramon proudly noted this week. Who is weak? Rice's exasperation with Israel's behavior stems primarily from the gap between expectations and results, and from the fast-dwindling time she has left on the seventh floor of the U.S. State Department. Rice thinks that Israel received a lot and didn't give anything in return. As she sees it, the Bush administration gave Israel two important gifts in the president's April, 2004 letter to Ariel Sharon: implied recognition of the settlement blocs, and a demand that the refugees return to the Palestinian state and not to Israel. But Israel isn't responding with the proper counter-gestures. Here, however, they say that Rice received plenty and that she ought to be more patient. After all, within a month, Israel went to the major political event in Annapolis, and then the donor countries agreed to give the PA even more than she asked for. That's not bad for such a short time. What's her big rush? The problem is that Rice embarked on this campaign in the belief that she would succeed in cutting the Gordian knot of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She hoped that in Annapolis principles would be set down for a final-status accord, but Israel told her that wasn't going to happen. She thinks that the PA is making satisfactory progress with the reform of its security forces, while officials in Israel say she's exaggerating and that the reform is still very far from accomplishing anything. She wanted to Israel to make more good-will gestures, but the Israelis remind here that this will be hard to do as long as Qassam rockets continue to fall on Sderot. She wanted to see outposts evacuated, and in Israel they blew her off, citing the danger it would pose to the coalition. Whether Israel likes it or not, it has been cast in the role of the obstacle, as the one putting the brakes on - while Abbas and his prime minister Salam Fayyad are seen as the ones who want to make progress. Rice, too, wants things to move. The brakes bother her. Though there are times when she's convinced that it's appropriate, lately it's been ticking her off more. Israel shouldn't be surprised by Rice's irritation. Rice can see just as well as the next person how easily the budget was passed in Israel, and has to be asking herself whether the cliche about "a weak Olmert" isn't just an excuse for more foot-dragging. This is where the difference between her and Bush is most noticeable. She's not a politician; he is. Even those of her disciples who believe she has a good grasp of strategy in the Middle East - and there are many - will also admit that the political arena is foreign to her. Certainly the complex Israeli political arena with its myriad players, big and small. And still, Rice's people ask: Not even one outpost? One little pre-fab? Rice is right in saying that Israel is not making good on its commitment on this matter, but in Israel they say that fulfilling the obligation would sabotage more important moves. Will the coalition's stability endure when the government tries to evacuate outposts, or to make serious progress in the negotiations with the Palestinians? Rice wants to believe that the answer is yes, but no one in Israel is willing to bet on it. The word in Olmert's bureau is that the coalition relies on the distinction between "theory and deed." As long as we're only talking with the Palestinians, everyone can sit comfortably in their cabinet seats. But a forceful evacuation of settlers, or far-reaching understandings with Abbas, could upset the partnership with Lieberman and Shas. Olmert is well aware of this, and prefers to maintain the coalition and the government over making any serious moves in the territories. For Rice to understand this too, however, she'll have to be convinced each time anew. 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May I talk about CRIMINAL MIND ZIONISTS ? 10:12  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 28/12/07   2.   Didn`t the same thing happen with Colin Powell? 10:18  |  Colin Wright 28/12/07   3.   BYPASS THE CRIMINAL ZIONISTS MINDS FIRST ! 10:21  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 28/12/07   4.   Sorry, but no more time for (inner) Israeli "stomach-ache"...... 10:24  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   5.   Rice, Annapolis, The Efforts...CRIMINAL EDITORS 10:28  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 28/12/07   6.   On reflection... 10:31  |  Colin Wright 28/12/07   7.   By the way, fortunately (for Israel) Jimmy Carter is white..... 10:37  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   8.   I guess that`s okay then 10:43  |  Colin Wright 28/12/07   9.   THE WORST U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE 10:52  |  indrajaya 28/12/07   10.   Duplicity by delay, war by attrition, Rice is right! 10:52  |  Ivar 28/12/07   11.   So, now the American Jewish Lobby hates Rice 11:04  |  Clickfool 28/12/07   12.   My America, Your America and The Devil America 11:22  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 28/12/07   13.   rice is not in the job on merit 11:24  |  meir dagan 28/12/07   14.   There will be no peace without big US pressure on Israel. 11:24  |  Michael 28/12/07   15.   swiss elect a black man to parliament 12:26  |  toblerone 28/12/07   16.   swiss did you hear of the southern italian town 12:28  |  toblerone 28/12/07   17.   swiss dino warns us 12:30  |  toblerone 28/12/07   18.   the italian town with its apartheid wall is padua. 12:44  |  toblerone 28/12/07   19.   swiss dino your nation is in need of money 12:45  |  toblerone 28/12/07   20.   the question is why swiss dino is so obsessed with us 12:47  |  toblerone 28/12/07   21.   Rice should remember two cardinal rules 12:57  |  anti-Clickfool 28/12/07   22.   #20 toby he never answers this question! 12:57  |  victor hardman 28/12/07   23.   David Landau & Haaretz are sick and needs phsichiatric treatment. 12:58  |  Sol 28/12/07   24.   swiss dino supposing nestle needs 10bn dollars 13:01  |  toblerone 28/12/07   25.   Toblerone - go to a Swiss website. 13:07  |  Michael 28/12/07   26.   the swiss hate their immigrant workers 13:12  |  toblerone 28/12/07   27.   Rice is Olmerts Poison 13:17  |  Chaim Gorenstein 28/12/07   28.   I apologise. Sorry. Bye for today. 13:22  |  atilla k. 28/12/07   29.   # 15 toblerone 13:25  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   30.   Colin Wrong 13:30  |  Brant 28/12/07   31.   # 20 / # 22 toblerone and victor-Pauli 13:41  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   32.   swiss dino and dar es salaam 13:45  |  toblerone 28/12/07   33.   Why did Miri Eisen resign? Does anyone know why? 13:46  |  Alan 28/12/07   34.   uk michael anti semite is your word.not used by me 13:49  |  toblerone 28/12/07   35.   uk michael invites me to go to a swiss website 13:53  |  toblerone 28/12/07   36.   Special rules for special folks 13:55  |  Natallie Durson 28/12/07   37.   uk michael a recent programme by the bbc 13:57  |  toblerone 28/12/07   38.   swiss sudanese immigrants brave egyptian brutality 14:02  |  toblerone 28/12/07   39.   michael to toblerone "go to a swiss website" 14:04  |  enoch 28/12/07   40.   # 25 Michael 14:13  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   41.   Exactly as I suspected with Rice: An underdog supporter with the 14:42  |  Virginia 28/12/07   42.   Rice ans Zionism 14:46  |  kaled 28/12/07   43.   Olmert`s personal Charm Doesn`t Work on Rice Nor On Israelis 14:53  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   44.   # 28 Hilda 14:58  |  Natallie Durson 28/12/07   45.   Condi doesn`t get it .. but everyone else does 15:02  |  Natallie Durson 28/12/07   46.   Peace with Saudia,Kuwait,Dubai,Morocco..... 15:09  |  Mickey, SouthLebanon 28/12/07   47.   Olmert should look for an Evangelical Christian for a bypass link 15:13  |  Tosefta 28/12/07   48.   # 28 Hilda ! to share is THE BEAUTY 15:14  |  ... 28/12/07   49.   29: Poor Dino, making obvious lies again 15:20  |  David Teich 28/12/07   50.   and the Prime Minister`s Office is anxious about her tendency 15:25  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   51.   Israel was pushed enough by enemies & friends and 15:27  |  Akram Zekaria 28/12/07   52.   Dispicable Dual Loyalists/Traitors to United States 15:28  |  US Single-Loyalist 28/12/07   53.   21 Anti-Click, Exactly right, she cannot throw a hissy fit 15:30  |  The Equalizer 28/12/07   54.   israel has a secret suicidal death wish! 15:32  |  lakshmi 28/12/07   55.   22 Victor Hardman, their obsession stems from two factors 15:37  |  The Equalizer 28/12/07   56.   Condi 15:40  |  Shachar 28/12/07   57.   How Jews in the Diaspora can help ! 15:45  |  Akram Zekaria 28/12/07   58.   30 Durson, there is NO # 28 Hilda....what is going on? 15:47  |  The Equalizer 28/12/07   59.   #30 nuyullie wants to discuss issues but only makes statements 15:48  |  victor hardman 28/12/07   60.   Olmert should look for an Evangelical Christian for a bypass link 15:52  |  Tosefta 28/12/07   61.   Rice and her baggages 15:57  |  Brod 28/12/07   62.   The latest point of friction had to do with the conference 16:01  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   63.   Rice pot has overboiled 16:01  |  bill gordon 28/12/07   64.   Rice never forgave Israel for this slap in the face. 16:10  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   65.   good-will gestures ? Not only they want Israel submission 16:25  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   66.   Rice has been heard grumbling about Israel`s foot-dragging 16:30  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   67.   Perhaps Rice`s problem is... 16:30  |  Walter 28/12/07   68.   issues of diplomacy and of legacy 1 16:34  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/07   69.   swiss dino "no xenophobia" 16:34  |  toblerone 28/12/07   70.   "Israel Balked" ! weakness endangering Israel Defensible Borders 16:37  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   71.   # 7 swiss...why should "right wingers" pay 16:38  |  Lynn 28/12/07   72.   #10 Ivar and like-minded believers 16:39  |  John Allen 28/12/07   73.   Clickfool # 11 So now Jews hate Condi.....? 16:46  |  Dagma 28/12/07   74.   Michael of the UK... 16:47  |  Lynn 28/12/07   75.   issues of diplomacy and of legacy 2 16:47  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/07   76.   Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, pretty gutsy! 16:52  |  Smadar 28/12/07   77.   Unfortunately for Condaleezza Rice, Annapolis was a failure 16:58  |  Dolly 28/12/07   78.   To all you Israel-prefering dual-loyalist American posters 17:00  |  Amer.Single-Loyalist 28/12/07   79.   The TROUBLE with Rice is ... as smart as she may be 17:08  |  Natasha 28/12/07   80.   New Core Issue For Olmert And Abbas To Agree On 17:11  |  Jeff Northridge 28/12/07   81.   Bush Want from us to set the red carpet to Abbas 17:13  |  Joseph E . 28/12/07   82.   CONDI RICE 17:21  |  Christian Van Nieker 28/12/07   83.   Let`s see, Jews are Rednecks and Palestinians are blacks; I suppo 17:25  |  David Turner 28/12/07   84.   What`s the hurry ? Indeed . 17:25  |  Akram Zekaria 28/12/07   85.   #22 Victorpaul Harrisman 17:28  |  Labhras 28/12/07   86.   # 36 re: Perhaps - Walter 17:29  |  Petra 28/12/07   87.   Natalie Durson 17:31  |  Kevin 28/12/07   88.   Olmert should look for an Evangelical Christian for a bypass link 17:32  |  Tosefta 28/12/07   89.   ToJoseph E - Look at Fatah and Hamas Charter 17:38  |  Annya 28/12/07   90.   # 28 Swiss Dino re toblerone 17:39  |  Labhras 28/12/07   91.   Con-da-Palestinians Rice 17:48  |  Labhras 28/12/07   92.   Aluf benn`s conjob on olmert 17:50  |  marcel 28/12/07   93.   holy newsflash batman.. 17:52  |  sam 28/12/07   94.   Since the purge of neoconservatives Bush`s administration 17:53  |  Jozef 28/12/07   95.   Condi only implementing anti-Israel agenda of State Dept Arabists 18:04  |  G. Marcus 28/12/07   96.   #30 - conveniently, you ignore ME to attack others 18:11  |  Steve 28/12/07   97.   The former National Security Advisor... 18:25  |  Steve 28/12/07   98.   USA begs you - invite Condi to Israel... and keep her there! 18:29  |  Max 28/12/07   99.   Say Equalizer 19:25  |  ballistic 28/12/07   100.   ballistic as a black american are you offended by 19:40  |  wassupgirl 28/12/07   101.   Jew-Haters WICKED LIE of Occupation. Return STOLEN Jewish Land 19:41  |  Linda Rivera 28/12/07   102.   American disloyalty to attack US for not following foreign nation 19:50  |  Single Loyalty: US 28/12/07   103.   Hi ! Max 19:57  |  bill gordon 28/12/07   104.   Isn`t it amazing? 20:05  |  Sidney 28/12/07   105.   victor hardman 22 20:05  |  realism 28/12/07   106.   Israel- The Square Circle - Muddling Through 20:07  |  David Neunuebel 28/12/07   107.   Ignore Rice. Let`s talk straight with our many American friends. 20:08  |  Chaim 28/12/07   108.   My America 20:14  |  Ben Othman 28/12/07   109.   Olmert should look for an Evangelical Christian for a bypass link 20:18  |  Tosefta 28/12/07   110.   PALESTINIANS Have NO PARTNER! Another PATHETIC Anti-Peace Effort. 20:20  |  Proud Pal Defender 28/12/07   111.   44 Bullistic, To answer a couple of your points 20:27  |  The Equalizer 28/12/07   112.   Electing Giuliani, McCain or Thompson Is a Remedy 20:36  |  Dave Levy 28/12/07   113.   # 48 Ben of US...... 21:06  |  Lynn 28/12/07   114.   At last I find a reason to like Olmert. He`s a soccer fan ! 21:08  |  Toronto`s Finest 28/12/07   115.   # 20 / # 22 toblerone / victor Pauli "It is all in your hands.." 21:15  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   116.   #51 Say Equalizer 21:51  |  ballistic 28/12/07   117.   #38 Stop whining G Marcus 21:57  |  ballistic 28/12/07   118.   Since Condi Rice is the secretary of state...... 22:26  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   119.   TO: Jew haters & Jew lovers. 22:31  |  JOJO 28/12/07   120.   # Little completion to my # 59 22:49  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/07   121.   To ballistic # 57 There is a Season for everything 22:50  |  Dolly 28/12/07   122.   To JOJO # 60 - Rice, Powell and Carter want Peace....... 23:11  |  Dagma 28/12/07   123.   NO DUAL LOYALTIES AND FOREIGN INSULTS 23:12  |  &NO AID TO INSULTERS 28/12/07   124.   #53 Say Dave in CA--"that do not agree with us" 23:27  |  ballistic 28/12/07   125.   swiss dino look over the shoulders of the swiss 23:30  |  toblerone 28/12/07   126.   swiss dino you are a bore 00:01  |  toblerone 29/12/07   127.   I return for the Bush letter Israel had left Gaza and got Qassams 00:03  |  Absolute Sweden 29/12/07   128.   57 Bullistic, I would say MORE of the world is focused on 00:11  |  The Equalizer 29/12/07   129.   Olmert has personal charm?! 00:20  |  jpudentain 29/12/07   130.   What did Rice really say about "Black Americans?" 00:31  |  a wandering Jew 29/12/07   131.   #68, Dino 00:37  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/12/07   132.   Rice is the end address -- HURRY WHILE YOU STILL CAN 00:43  |  Pablo B 29/12/07   133.   #53labarse of arabia arrives in boston pasting posters 01:08  |  victor hardman 29/12/07   134.   #100 Say Equalizer 01:18  |  ballistic 29/12/07   135.   #104 Pablo 01:23  |  ballistic 29/12/07   136.   #102 A wandering Jew 01:24  |  ballistic 29/12/07   137.   104 Pablo B 01:26  |  a wandering Jew 29/12/07   138.   # 44 Lynn 01:27  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/12/07   139.   #43 Say Joseph E 01:28  |  ballistic 29/12/07   140.   # 25 Michael and # 62 Labhras 01:38  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/12/07   141.   # 103 Cipora Julianna Kohn 01:43  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/12/07   142.   Say Bullistic, hey girl, you way ovuh yo head. 01:47  |  The Equalizer 29/12/07   143.   #44 Lynn 01:47  |  Chris Linthwaite 29/12/07   144.   #120 CHEAP PATRIOT 02:32  |  JOJO 29/12/07   145.   # 49 Poor David Teich, shooting himself in the own foot 02:57  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/12/07   146.   Keep wandering, Mr "a wandering Jew" 03:07  |  Pablo B 29/12/07   147.   #123 "No aid". You speak utter rubbish on many levels. 03:09  |  Chaim 29/12/07   148.   Holding on tightly to Bush`s April 2004 letter 03:22  |  Pablo B 29/12/07   149.   #/shachar 04:36  |  ballistic 29/12/07   150.   #61 Brod 04:42  |  ballistic 29/12/07   151.   #142 Equalizer 04:48  |  ballistic 29/12/07   152.   #139 ballistic @ henderson / nv 05:22  |  Joseph E . 29/12/07   153.   what happened to Benazir Bhutto on a person level 05:51  |  avigdor 29/12/07   154.   Clickfool, indrajera, dutch, et al really part of Haaretz editori 05:52  |  leo 29/12/07   155.   Where Condi Goes, Chaos Follows,,, Bhutto / Pakistan 06:07  |  Klaudia 29/12/07   156.   64# Joseph E. Rice is after an easy victory. 06:19  |  Akram Zekaria 29/12/07   157.   now this little "ying and yang" tale takes the cake! 08:30  |  eric 29/12/07   158.   157 - its Israeli politics stupid 11:35  |  ussishkin 29/12/07   159.   # 89 Annya 11:37  |  Joseph E . post 1 29/12/07   160.   #155 Say Klaudia 11:47  |  ballistic 29/12/07   161.   Rice the Arabist misplacing her activism. 14:37  |  SystemF 29/12/07   162.   #161SystemF 16:43  |  tbora 29/12/07   163.   Evaluation of Condi Rice 17:05  |  Tosefta 29/12/07   164.   146 Hey Paublo 18:17  |  a wandering Jew 29/12/07   165.   i agree with turgid tosefta that condi is not up to it 19:59  |  meir dagan 29/12/07   166.   "events my dear boy events" and condi 20:04  |  meir dagan 29/12/07   167.   # 64 Joseph E.. RICE IS A TOUGH,UGLY,RESENTFUL,AMBITIOUS WOMAN.. 20:34  |  Kathy 29/12/07   168.   # 61 Brod Rice Should Keep Her Bagges Before They Come .. 20:49  |  Kathy 29/12/07   169.   # 155 Klaudia...CONDI RICE IS A DISASTER ALL AROUND.. 20:55  |  Kathy 29/12/07   170.   Some Body Who Begins With "Say"..HAS NOTHING WORTHY TO SAY.. 21:34  |  HAPPY UP HERE 29/12/07   171.   # 161 SystemF Rice the Arabist misplacing her activism 21:51  |  Kathy 29/12/07   172.   transparently Machiavellian 22:01  |  Too slim 29/12/07   173.   # 153 avigdorwhat happened to Benazir Bhutto on a person level 22:17  |  Kathy 29/12/07   174.   Two Faced Condi 23:01  |  Larry 29/12/07   175.   Tossi, our Syrian dupe #163 23:18  |  FOX 29/12/07   176.   #157 eric back at the ranch sees condi in danger 23:19  |  victor hardman 29/12/07   177.   Stupid question 23:28  |  tadchase 29/12/07   178.   To Kathy ... USA/Condi/ and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan 23:52  |  Klaudia 29/12/07   179.   Kathy ( part 2) 00:01  |  Klaudia 30/12/07   180.   Kathy ( part 3) 00:11  |  Klaudia 30/12/07   181.   # 175 Klaudia .and for the following posts you profferedthanks 04:02  |  Kathy 30/12/07   182.   Reply to Larry (Post No. 174) 04:22  |  Johnny Weintraub 30/12/07   183.   Bush and Rice are on the same wavelength 07:13  |  Charles B. Hall 30/12/07   184.   Condi Rice/Israel 07:21  |  prema 30/12/07   185.   145: Dino, I thought waffles were Belgian, not Swiss... 14:36  |  David Teich 30/12/07   186.   Klaudia`s Klouded thinking 14:43  |  David Teich 30/12/07   187.   Dear Haaretz, where are my responses to David Teich...??? 22:09  |  Swiss (Dino) 30/12/07   188.   The Jewish land 03:35  |  Dawud 02/01/08   189.   187: Dino (2nd try) 15:26  |  David Teich 08/01/08

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