And Condi-the-Arrogant Accomplished What?

NOTHING! NADA! ZIP!! The Washington Post said this morning, “Before leaving Washington, (Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice had said she wanted to set up a parallel negotiating track that began to deal with the main issues thwarting the establishment of a Israel-Palestinian conflict. ‘My primary goal is to establish a mechanism, a common approach, that I can use with them in parallel so that we are addressing the same issues,’ Rice said Friday. ‘That's really the key right now.’” Little Condi Rice, Super-nanny to Little Georgie Bush had dinner with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in order to...what was that again? “…she wanted to set up a parallel negotiating track that began to deal with the main issues thwarting the establishment of a Israel-Palestinian conflict.” And little Condi’s goal is to…let me hear that again. “My primary goal is to establish a mechanism, a common approach, that I can use with them in parallel so that we are addressing the same issues.” Oh dear! Silly little foot-stamping, clenched-hair Condi. Does she actually think those guys in Israel and Palestine are listening to her? Does she actually think they pay her any mind at all? Does she believe she has any standing, clout or say-so whatsoever in Israel and Palestine? Apparently, that’s exactly what she thinks. But to prove that Condoleezza Rice is merely an annoying piece of detritus that has landed in the lap of Israeli and Palestinian mahoffs, the Washington Post added, “But that idea largely faded after Rice held her first meeting with Olmert over dinner on Sunday, U.S. and Israeli officials said. Israeli officials said Olmert had problems with the "parallel" format and also balked at the scope of the issues Rice wanted to raise. He refused to put on the table the core issues of the conflict, such as borders, Jerusalem and the settlement of refugees.” Get over yourself Condi. Even if you had a pleasing personality, which you don’t; even if you didn’t act and sound like a schoolmarm, which you do; even if you were respected in the United States, which you aren’t; even if your voice didn’t grate on the ears like a car horn that can’t be turned off, which it does; even if all those negatives did not militate against your being taken seriously, you would not be taken seriously in Israel and Palestine because you represent the Bush administration. And Israel now knows, thanks to the Bush administration, the US cannot protect Israel from Iran or Syria. And Palestine thinks the US is pro-Israel and that the US will never help them get land back or have their own state. In addition to which, Palestine knows that the Bush administration is scared to death of Hamas, the majority party of Palestine, so what’s the point in thinking the Bushies will aid Palestine in anything anywhere? And neither Israel nor Palestine trust the Bush administration or believe a single word it says. But even if there were a flicker of hope that the US could bring Israel and Palestine together, and even if there was a remote possibility that the US really wants to bring Israel and Palestine together, Condoleezza Rice would be the wrong person to do anything positive in that regard. However, if the US wants to sabotage all efforts between Israel and Palestine, and destroy any possibility of accord between those two countries, then Condi Rice is the exact right person to send on the mission that the Bush administration has sent her on. Ponder that.