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from strength to strength," said a senior
Israeli official.
As Bush's national security adviser,
Rice was a key architect of Mideast pol-
icy, and Bush seemed to rely on her
National Security Council to spearhead
policy development in that region.
Notably, Bush named Rice as a
Middle East envoy in the summer of
2003, when there was a prospect for
peace negotiations between Sharon and
then-Palestinian Authority Prime
Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Rice was a vocal advocate for Israel
from her White House perch, lauding
the U.S.-Israel relationship several times
to Jewish audiences and putting the
onus squarely on the Palestinians to
abandon terrorism and establish a credi-
ble government.
"The Palestinian people must replace
the failed leadership of decades and
build a practicing democracy based on
tolerance and liberty," Rice told the
American Israel Public Affairs
Committee on Oct. 25 in Hollywood,
Fla. "A Palestinian state will require a
vibrant economy, and it will find
friends to help it build that."
In an interview a day later, before the
demise of Palestinian Authority
President Yasser Arafat, Rice suggested
that the best time for U.S. re-engage-
ment in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
would be when Israel disengages from
the Gaza Strip.
"I think what you will see is, if Prime
Minister Sharon is successful in moving
forward on his disengagement plan,
that that could provide a new impetus
for the Palestinians to move toward
reform as they get ready to take respon-
sibilities in the Gaza, and it could pro-
vide an impetus then for a beginning of
negotiations between the parties," she
said.
That stance isn't likely to find fans
among the Palestinians, who see Rice as
more willing than Powell to overlook
Israel's commitments under the "road
map" peace plan. Hamas has called
Rice "a Zionist," and Arab media at
times have ridiculed her in heavily racist
language.
Rice has backed Israel's security fence,
but was a key influence on Bush's deci-
sion to ask Israel to change its route to
bring it closer to the pre-1967 bound-
ary with the West Bank. On a visit to
the region in 2003, Rice was shown a
Palestinian presentation about the fence
and the effect it could have on their
livelihood, and came away concerned
Israel was separating too many
Palestinians from their farms.

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