[Washington Post] David Ignatius - Rice began talking in January about a "realignment" in the Middle East that would bring together moderate Sunni Arab states to resist Iranian-backed radicalism. From the beginning, that approach included restarting an Israeli-Palestinian peace process. For Rice, the Annapolis meeting was a group snapshot of this realignment. American officials viewed the positive speech by Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, as a break in the ice of U.S.-Syrian relations. U.S. officials credit Syria for reducing the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq, and they are planning regular security meetings with the Syrians.
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