Daily Archives: January 12, 2007

US Sec’y of State Rice Launches Initiative for Immediate Arms and Recognition of Palestinian...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is promoting a new initiative to establish a temporary, sovereign and armed Palestinian state Rice will try to promote her initiative soon through extensive international shuttle diplomacy, which...

Rice To Promote Palestinian State

Rice's initiative will circumvent the first step of the Middle East Road map that she herself pioneered in May 2003. That first step required that the leaders of the Palestinian Authority must first disband and disarm all Palestinian terrorist groups - some of which remain under the command of and loyalty to Mahmoud Abbas.