When Rice was leaving the ME she held a joint press conference withTzipi Livni and said,
“I do think that it is a moment of opportunity, but of course there’s very hard work to do. I am going to do everything that I can to help the parties as they try to come to understandings on a wide variety of issues, outstanding issues that have long been a part of the need to — that must be resolved if there is to be a Palestinian state.”
I find it interesting that the added “if there is to be a Palestinian state”.
In a previous post many months ago which I couldn’t locate, I noted that she often did likewise, i.e., left open the prospect that there wouldn’t be a Palestinian state.
