Secretary Rice Performs For AIPAC

Did she play the piano? No. She performed according to script or else she wouldn't have been invited.

I thought America had hit bottom when Madeline Albright was Secretary of State ( one of many poor choices) for the Clinton Administration. Ms. Albright would have been better suited as a cosmetics clerk for Macys. But now she rises in my grading- a worse choice has emerged- Condi Rice. Ms Albright was better than Secretary Rice because she knew when to keep her mouth shut ( pun intended).

Ms. Rice made an inflammatory presentation on May 23, 2005 before the annual meeting of AIPAC ( American Israel Public Affairs Committee). It is the most powerful lobby in Washington and represents a FOREIGN government. Ms. Rice, who is supposed to be America's top diplomat, was serving up pandering morsils to the organization that helps run US foreign policy along with the evangelicals-Bush And Rice are members of the Southern Baptist Convention. Condi was dwelling on the late President of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat( Nobel Laureate along with the late Y. Rabin and S.Peres of Israel for their work on the Oslo Accords). She implied that he was the singular obstacle to peace and that the new president of the PA, Mahmoud Abbas had to prove himself before the US would proceed with a two-state solution. Rice said" The Palestinian Authority must advance democratic reforms and it must dismantle all terrorist networks in it's society while Israel must not take any actions that prejudices a final settlement with the PA".

Rice and Israel call them terrorists. The Palestinians call them their militia. The warning to Israel- " must not take any action that prejudices a final settlement with the PA"- what about the 425- mile wall that the US is partly paying for?

The partition of Palestine in 1948 was not ethical. America should stop supporting an inflammatory land development scheme by the Israelis that threatens world peace.

Rice's performance at AIPAC's meeting was a side show akin to a performing poodle while the distructive high-wire act of US foreign policy is shrouded by righteousness.