[Washington Post] Karen DeYoung - Israel is ready to put "all basic questions, all the substantive problems, all the historical questions" about Palestinian statehood on the table in a U.S.-hosted peace conference later this month in Annapolis, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday. In her second visit to Israel in three weeks, U.S. Secretary of State Rice indicated that she was pursuing less ambitious goals. Rather than a joint declaration of parameters for a final settlement, sources said the document now envisioned for the conference would declare the implementation of the multi-step "road map" first drawn up by the U.S., Europe and the UN in 2003.
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