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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a thankless, all but impossible task in trying to sell the Arab world on the U.S. policy of delaying a cease-fire so that the Israeli military can continue its anti-Hizballah campaign. But her case was hardly helped when she explained that the violence that has already killed more than 400 Lebanese and turned more than a half million into refugees represents the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Phrases like that - and her rejection of the call for an immediate cease-fire on the grounds that "whatever we do, we have...
...Arab leaders, moreover, have learned to be suspicious of Rice's revolutionary ambitions - just a year ago, she spoke of spreading "creative chaos" in the region. Iraq, after all, is Exhibit A of the Bush Administration's "New Middle East," and it's a bloody mess that is growing worse by the day. Now, for Act 2, the Arabs are being told to sit quietly while Israel tears Lebanon apart, after months of watching it slowly throttle Gaza through a U.S.-backed economic blockade, and then bomb it for weeks on end. Hardly surprising that the Arabs - from...
...disagreement between the Speaker and Secretary Rice is procedural not substantive," said Ali Hamadan, a spokesman for Berri. "There are many points of agreement. But she wants to talk about how to bring stability to Lebanon and he's telling her, 'Let's go straight to a cease fire...
...Africa but raised in Lebanon, was once a lawyer for General Motors and lived in Detroit in the 1970s. And though the U.S. has refused to have any contact with Hizballah since they bombed the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps Barracks in Lebanon in 1983, Berri has met with Rice several times before. When Rice traveled to Lebanon in February of this year to put pressure on Syria to comply with the U.N. investigation into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, she snubbed pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud but still met with Berri...
...part of Lebanon, Sheba Farms, though the United Nations says the land is actually Syrian; Syria, for its part, is loath to admit that another part of their country is occupied by Israel and Sheba Farms is part of Lebanon as well. (The issue is so contentious that when Rice was in Lebanon in February, she said she'd love to come back to Lebanon and go skiing, to which Berri retorted, "The best skiing in Lebanon is in Sheba Farms." There are, in fact, no ski resorts in Sheba Farms.) According to Berri's spokesman Hamadan, negotiations with Israel...