Rice Likens Secret Israel-PA Talks to Oslo

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(IsraelNN.com) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hinted Saturday that secret talks between Israel and Fatah-PA could lead to a deal just like the negotiations that preceded the 'Oslo accord' did. Speaking before the Aspen Institute, Rice said she last met with the negotiating parties on Wednesday. In her words: "They're negotiating seriously. And they are negotiating intensely. I cannot tell you that they are close to an agreement, but they are working at it very hard. They're trying to do it out of the glare of the media."

"It's sometimes forgotten," she explained, "that the most successful negotiation that the Palestinians and the Israelis ever had was Oslo, and nobody even knew, in 1993,

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Re: Rice Likens Secret Israel-PA Talks to Oslo

For me, I think the statement that hit me was...

So the absence of public movement is not necessarily evidence of the absence of movement."

The ones negotiating with Olmert, are also the ones running to take Olmert's seat. Those dynamics alone are dangerous.