This evening, Condi Rice held a press conference in Ramallah and an excerpt:
QUESTION: (Via interpreter) Dr. Rice, you gave yesterday ideas that --
discussed ideas with President Abbas regarding the document for Annapolis conference. What are these ideas? And are these ideas that have helped the progress that we have noticed today in your discussions with President Abbas.
President Abbas, you said that there is a breakthrough in the negotiations. What kind of a breakthrough? What kind of progress?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, we have, frankly, a condition that I very much welcome now, which is that we appear to be on course to prepare seriously for continuous, ongoing negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis for the establishment of a Palestinian state for the first time in many years, in seven years. We need to focus to make certain that everything that we do creates the best possible atmosphere for the day after Annapolis as well as for Annapolis. And those are the discussions that we have been having.
and
PRESIDENT ABBAS: (Via interpreter) Negotiations are difficult and will continue to be difficult until the very last moment, until we start the implementation; and negotiations will continue to be difficult, but in fact there are
encouraging signs and signals that have happened today and before this day. And
without these encouraging signs that are -- we are receiving from the American
Administration and that we are also seeing coming out from the Israeli side, then there will be no reason to continue the negotiations. But we see that these negotiations are encouraging and are positive, but we need to take into
consideration that they will continue to be difficult until the very end because a cause that is more than one hundred years old we will not find -- it is not easy to find a solution for it in few days or weeks or even months.
Notice that 100 years bit?
So, Israel is a 100-year old occupier?
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