Condi Rice told the Washington Times that Uncle Sam has changed its approach to the road map:
“The reason that we haven’t really been able to move forward on the peace process for a number of years is that we were stuck in the sequentiality of the road map. So you had to do the first phase of the road map before you moved on to the third phase of the road map, which was the actual negotiations of final status,” Rice said. . . . What the US-hosted November peace summit in Annapolis did was “break that tight sequentiality. . . You don’t want people to get hung up on settlement activity or the fact that the Palestinians haven’t fully been able to deal with the terrorist infrastructure. . .”
Jeff Jacoby reacts:
Thus the president who once insisted that a “Palestinian state will never be created by terror” now insists that a Palestinian state be created regardless of terror. . . Now the administration says that Palestinian terrorism and incitement are nothing “to get hung up on.”
