An insipid cocktail in the Middle East

Aleš Gaube comments on US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's most recent Middle East visit. "Her mission during George Bush's two terms in office has never changed. The classic theme of promoting the peace process has always been part and parcel of her diplomatic agenda. Once Washington exhausted the possibilities of the bilateral approach of courting both the Israelis and the Palestinians and started to focus on the search for new starting points for negotiations on the battlefield instead, the process was kept alive through international peace conferences. ... The results of the summit in Taba ... and most recently in Annapolis, are an insipid cocktail of rehashed efforts and promises. ... This time too, Condoleezza Rice remained committed to the course of promoting the White House's efforts aimed at bringing about the signing of the world's most eagerly awaited peace accord in the Holy Land by the end of Bush's term in office."

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