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Rice pushes for urgent action in Israel-Palestinian talks
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Sunday 11th May, 2008 (Ynet)
The Bush administration has told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they will need to show progress in their secret talks soon, or risk a potentially fatal erosion in public support for a process now in its sixth month without any obvious successes.
Diplomats say Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice passed a message of urgency during meetings with both sides a little more than a week ago.
They say Rice was reacting mainly to the increasingly pessimistic Palestinian assessments of the talks, but she warned that confidence was fragile among Israelis too.
"We talked some about the perception that they're just having endless talks," Rice told reporters later, without mentioning the warnings she had raised in private. "They simply don't see it that way."
President Bush will visit Israel and Arab states this week, adding to public pressure to demonstrate that US-sponsored peace talks are bearing fruit.
Diplomats said, however, that Rice's warning was not tied to Bush's visit and that she left it to both sides to determine what to do next.
One possibility is for negotiators to issue an interim statement describing progress on their talks.
Any such update would ideally include a few specifics about the future borders of a Palestinian state, one of the difficult questions that Rice and others have said the two sides are discussing.
A Palestinian adviser said Rice raised the possibility of a statement outlining progress during her latest visit to Israel and the West Bank, but was shot down by both sides.
Rice said the closed-door meetings were progressing in good faith and that she understood the negotiators' desire to keep their dealings out of the press.
Although difficult, the border question is considered perhaps the most soluble of the major questions that divide Israel and the Palestinians.
Rice mentioned borders prominently, suggesting she thinks it is the best chance for progress in the near term.
Rice has urged that the sides draw a final map soon, in part because it would help settle other disputes.
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roger wallace
05-12-08, 09:18 PM |
Hear the word of the lord O Israel
(Not recorded in a book yet)
Hear the word of the lord O Israel
W / 20 vs.
1 As concerning Israel making agreements with foreign nations who are found living on Israeli biblical land.
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2 Have ya O Israel, not heard, thou shalt make no agreements with those foreign nations who are found forever on Israeli biblical land?
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3 Ye shall make no agreements with them, least I (god) punish thee (Israel). And ye (Israel) shall go and obtain all land that is found according to my (god) historical oath with you (Israel),
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4 Even as it is found recorded between me (god) and Abraham thy fore father, eternally forever and ever seen.
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5 Remember, make no covenants, nor agreements with them (the heathen), least I (god) turn upon thee (Israel) and smite thee (Israel) with my (god) hand, as thou (Israel) art found,
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6 As found unto me (god) as being disobedient to me (god), in regards as being found sinful against our agreement. That is made between me (god) and thee (Israel) and Abraham thy fore father, eternally forever and ever seen.
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7 If, thou (Israel) shalt make such sinfulness against me (god). As it would be found forever. In making covenants against my (god) eternal seen promise with Abraham thy fore father.
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8 Then, those that would desire thy (Israel) death and true destruction. They (the heathen) shall snare thee (Israel) and chase thee (Israel) and remove thee (Israel) in parts of thy land, until: Thou (Israel) canât run and hide from my (god) oath, any longer, and forever.
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9 And then, thou O Israel. Thou shalt turn unto me (god) with all of thy seen to me (god), true heart, forever. And I (god) will, set thee, then forever,
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10 As forever set into all of thy (Israel) biblical true land of promise, that is found unto thee (Israel) eternally forever.
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11 And that faithful true promise. It is found unto thee forever, as it is given of me (god), unto you (Israel), eternally forever and ever seen, and true.
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12 Therefore, ye (Israel) shall not break my (god) word, as it is found recorded in the christian bible, as being Exodus 23:32.
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13 Exodus 23
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14 23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
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15 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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16 23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. -
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17 Those things, O Israel. They are eternally found true, as true between me (god) and thee (Israel), forever kind. And they are true, as I (god) have declared them true unto thee (Israel), forever.
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18 And those kindly things, that are spoken of old and of now. All of those things, they are all spoken unto thee, and are spoken even unto thee, in this generation, and forever.
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19 And I (god) do declare those things forever, as being eternally true as I am true forever, as saith me (god), eternally forever and ever kind.
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20 And I (god) am the lord of Hosts, and I (god) do declare these things, heavenly forever, as being eternally true, as it shall always be true, as true of me (god), forever certain.
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Roger wallace, author of THE GOD OF TRUTH, found at : I-proclaim, isbn 978-1-60585-521-9.
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Reality
05-12-08, 10:13 AM |
By ~galljdaj+, 05-12-08, 06:51 AM
I am shocked. This is the first time I have ever read a message by galljdaj and halfway agreed with it. It was also somewhat witty. Good job, old man. There is hope for you yet.
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~galljdaj+
05-12-08, 06:51 AM |
Rice pushes for urgent action in Israel-Palestinian talks
My how the 'heat' of public opinion is working on ms pudding rice!
But the lies still keep coming! “6 MONTHS”! Its closer to 60 years! ms rice!
60 YEARS OF A FAILED UN RESOLUTION, pumped up by Billions of US Taxpayers' Dollars!
Its time for the UN to rescind Resolution 181, and write a new resolution, The Florida name change to 'New Israel South'!
The People of the US will Welome the New Israel, they will not act like the People of Palestine as if they were loosing their homes or lands! They will welcome the God of Israel’s People.
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~galljdaj+
05-12-08, 02:00 PM |
Urgent ms rice urgent!!!
Start Bombing Cuba, urgently! People are being Tortured!
And those DAMNED bRITISH pEOPLE ARE PROMOTING 'tourism'!
Your paultry shutting down websites smacks of ineptness! There is a crisis in torturing on some military base in Cuba!
Shuting down a website because it violates an embargo? You’ve got to be burned rice pudding!
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U.S. government closes down European web sites promoting tourism to Cuba
MADRID.âThe U.S. government has closed down a number of Internet web sites operating from Spain, which belong to a British citizen resident in that country and are promoting tourism, as reported in the Madrid Público newspaper.
The measures were taken against Steve Marshall, a Briton resident in Tenerife since 1986 and the owner of a travel agency, for which he runs a number of web pages on culture and tourism in Cuba.
According to the report, last October Washington ordered the U.S. server eNom to close down those sites, using the laws of the blockade of Cuba in place for nearly 50 years.
It adds that the U.S. Treasury Department has stated that Marshallâs Internet addresses, in the main tourist guides, have been included on a blacklist for having commercial links with Cuba.
Marshall took his case to the relevant agencies of the European Union (EU), but they have stated that they are unable to do anything, despite him being a British citizen operating from a EU country with European clients.
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