Rice Hopes to Revive Mideast Talks
By AMY TEIBEL
Associated Press
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Palestinian peace negotiators on Wednesday, hoping to persuade them to resume talks despite a spike of violence between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
A day earlier, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pointedly resisted Rice’s pressure to return to the negotiating table, saying Israel had to first “halt its aggression” a reference to recent military operations against Gaza rocket squads that killed more than 120 Palestinians over the past week, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Read the rest of this entry »
