Al-Ahram Weekly "Despite her high-pitched pronouncements about George Bush's commitment to 'ending the Palestinian problem', US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice achieved very little -- if anything -- in her latest visit to the Middle East.
Rice, who on 14 October arrived in Israel from Russia where she urged President Vladimir Putin to support American efforts to isolate Iran, sought to lower expectations of her visit.
'I don't expect that there will be any particular outcome in the sense of a breakthrough on the document,' she said, referring to efforts by Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to reach a draft of a joint document outlining the general features of a prospective final-status solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Rice, who on 14 October arrived in Israel from Russia where she urged President Vladimir Putin to support American efforts to isolate Iran, sought to lower expectations of her visit.
'I don't expect that there will be any particular outcome in the sense of a breakthrough on the document,' she said, referring to efforts by Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to reach a draft of a joint document outlining the general features of a prospective final-status solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."