[Washington Times] Eli Lake - Former Israeli Ambassador to Washington Daniel Ayalon, Israel's new deputy foreign minister, told the Washington Times on Wednesday that the Annapolis process took "the Roadmap and put it on its head." "Not only is this against the inner logic of the Roadmap, but also it has proven not only not to be constructive, in fact it was damaging." Ayalon stressed that Lieberman and the new Israeli government support a two-state solution within the context of the Roadmap. Elliott Abrams, a former deputy national security adviser to former President Bush, said he did not interpret Lieberman's remarks as a rejection of the two-state solution. "He is not saying that Israel has no commitment to the two-state solution. He may be saying that he does not want to be bound by immediate final-status talks. It seems to me that there is no basis here for a fight between the U.S. and Israel because everything we really want in policy is in the Roadmap."
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