Don't look now, Condi, but I think your head is missing from your shoulders

every once in a while, somebody comes up behind you, and, with a sword so fine and sharp, cuts your head right off without you feeling a thing... condi probably won't even notice hers missing until she reads this...

It happens once every few months. Like a periodic visit by an especially annoying relative from overseas, Condoleezza Rice was here [Israel] again. The same declarations, the same texts devoid of content, the same sycophancy, the same official aircraft heading back to where it came from. The results were also the same: Israel promised in December, after a stormy night of discussions, to open the "safe passage" between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This time, in what was considered the "achievement" of the current visit, Israel also promised to open the Karni crossing. Karni will be open, one can assume, only slightly more than the "safe passage," which never opened following the previous futile visit.

Rice has been here six times in the course of a year and a half, and what has come of it? Has anyone asked her about this? Does she ask herself?

It is hard to understand how the secretary of state allows herself to be so humiliated. It is even harder to understand how the superpower she represents allows itself to act in such a hollow and useless way. The mystery of America remains unsolved: How is it that the United States is doing nothing to advance a solution to the most dangerous and lengthiest conflict in our world? How is it that the world's only superpower, which has the power to quickly facilitate a solution, does not lift a finger to promote it?

well, golly... don't beat around the bush, mr. levy... tell us how you REALLY feel...

(from haaretz via steve clemons at the washington note...)

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