by RAY FLEMING
MAPS tend to get tatty after a while, folding the wrong way and tearing at points of crucial information. This is what has happened to the road map to peace between Israel and Palestine which was first drawn in 2002. It has been opened up and folded back so many times that it is no longer fit for purpose. That became clear yesterday when Condoleezza Rice, on her eighth visit to the region during her two years as US Secretary of State, could achieve nothing more than an announcement that a trilateral meeting involving Israel, Palestine and the United States will take place in three or four weeks. The aim of the meeting, according to a US official, will be to create a political horizon (whatever that may be) for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
NEW MAP, PLEASE
16/01/2007 00:00
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