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In an article published Saturday in the San Jose (California) Mercury News, Rice said President Bush's vision of a Palestinian state should not be based on Arafat's Palestinian Authority.

"Frankly, the Palestinian Authority, which is corrupt and cavorts with terror ... is not the basis for a Palestinian state moving forward,'' Rice told the Mercury News editorial board.

Rice said that without creating democratic institutions that include factions now excluded by Arafat's rule, there is not much hope for an eventual peace settlement with Israel.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/06/17/mideast/index.html

President Bush will outline the U.S. approach to a Middle East peace settlement this coming week, including moving toward establishing a Palestinian state, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told the Mercury News on Friday. But such a state should not be based on Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, Rice made clear.

``Frankly, the Palestinian Authority, which is corrupt and cavorts with terror . . . is not the basis for a Palestinian state moving forward,'' Rice told the Mercury News editorial board.

Without creating democratic institutions that include forces now excluded by Arafat's rule, there is not much hope for an eventual peace settlement with Israel, Rice said. ``We don't think of this as reform of the Palestinian Authority,'' said the president's top foreign-policy adviser. ``We think of this as building the institutions of a state that will be capable of actually moving to statehood.''

Rice's comments were the most detailed to date about the direction the White House is moving regarding the Middle East. Rice is in the Bay Area to deliver the commencement address Sunday at Stanford University, where she is a political-science professor and served as provost for six years.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/2002/06/15/news/3476056.htm

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msg723 で紹介したライス合衆国大統領補佐官の語った言葉の原文を掲載しました。

『パレスチナ自治政府はテロと戯れている』なかなか辛辣な意見ですし、パレスチナ国家樹立の実効性に関して疑問を持っている点で、僕の見解とも近いものを感じます。

大統領や首相のように国家を背負っての政治責任が無い分、様々な政治的妥協に囚われる事無く純粋にクールな分析が導き出せるのでしょう。