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Rice's Road Map


[New York Sun] Rick Richman - Over the last year, Secretary of State Rice has transformed U.S. policy from (a) support for a Palestinian state conditioned on compliance with Phase I and II of the Roadmap, to (b) support for Phase III final status negotiations to establish a Palestinian state "as soon as possible," even though the Palestinians have not complied with either Phase I or II. Under the Roadmap, final status negotiations were to occur only after a sustained and effective effort by the PA to dismantle terrorist capabilities and infrastructure - Phase I. The PA has yet to dismantle a single terrorist organization, or arrest a terrorist leader, in the four years since the Palestinians accepted the Roadmap. In the same period, Israel dismantled 25 settlements, withdrew from Gaza, and released hundreds of prisoners.
2007-10-11 01:00:00
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