Editorial
"The idea that somehow the president of the United States would call an international meeting so that we could all have a photo op is very far-fetched," said American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a recent visit to the Middle East. "I think everyone expects it to be serious and substantive, and everybody expects it to address critical issues. We don't expect anything less. We can't simply continue to say we want a two-state solution; we have got to start to move towards one."
Those are strong words. The question is the degree of substance, creative thinking and intent behind those words.
Forty years after 1967, over l00 years since the beginning of the clash between the modern Jewish and Palestinian national movements, we are once again nearing a possible crossroads. There are skeptics who say that all the major protagonists - the host American administration led by President George W. Bush, the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Palestin
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