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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the middle East to ensure that everything is hunky dory with the warring factions. Bush obviously views this as a critically important time in the process, seeing Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as its best chance of helping create a lasting settlement. She first visits Abbas and then moves on to the beleaguered Ariel Sharon. Support for the withdrawal fom Gaza and the slow move towards a two-state solution is dwindling inside Israel. Can plucky little Condi help Sharon through the minefield ahead by re-discovering the old Road Map? The promise of lots of lovely US dollars may help to keep him in tow.

The Times; Monday 20/6/05

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