Scant Details as Rice Lobbies for Mideast Meeting

Nobody is buying into this neocon peace move charade. The idea that any agreement for the creation of a Palestinian state that does not include Hamas, and their supporters, would work is farcical. This is nothing but attempt to consolidate a botched coup attempt:

A goal of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's Middle East trip this week is to win Arab support for a proposed conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace moves, but details for that meeting are scant.

U.S. President George W. Bush announced the meeting would take place before the end of this year as part of what the White House said was a big new initiative to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Rice will be in Egypt and Saudi Arabia with Defense Secretary Robert Gates where stabilizing Iraq is a key topic but she will also be pushing for commitment to attend a meeting she says is aimed at promoting a two-state solution for the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Some are not buying this Bush scam:

Many Arab states are deeply suspicious of the U.S. role in Arab-Israeli peacemaking, particularly following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the chaos that has ensued.

They are also asking whether a future Palestinian state can be discussed when the Palestinian territories are divided between Islamist Hamas-run Gaza and the West Bank, where U.S.-backed President Mahmoud Abbas has his own government.

Saudi Arabia and others strongly oppose the U.S. government's policy of isolating Hamas. "If you build (a new Palestinian state) on deepening Palestinian division then it can't deliver legitimacy or security," said Levy.

Some know what must be done:

Last week two envoys from the 22-nation Arab League visited Israel to present a regional land-for-peace plan that calls for a rapid timetable for talks with the Palestinians over statehood.

That plan also offers Israel normal ties with all Arab states in return for a full withdrawal from the lands it seized in the 1967 Middle East war, creation of a Palestinian state and a "just solution" for refugees.