Power Shortage In The Middle East
The State Department has pronounced itself optimistic. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after all, declared progress toward an Israeli-Palestinian settlement to be her primary goal. It’s the only substantive goal—other than negotiating a more-or-less-orderly withdrawal from Iraq—that the Bush administration seems to have left. So the line from Foggy Bottom is that the Palestinian split offers an opportunity. A “senior American official” briefs: “We are trying to push the restart button”—i....