US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has started a Middle East tour to take another crack at reviving the peace process but without a specific plan to resolve the conflict.
She was due to hold talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders before heading to Arab capitals to seek support for a new US strategy in Iraq. According to AFP, Rice said she has no specific plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but is coming to listen.
"I am not coming with a proposal. I am not coming with a plan," she told the accompanying press during a stopover in Ireland Saturday. "A couple of things are crystal clear: if you don't lay groundwork very well, it is not going to succeed.
"And I think no plan can be 'Made in America'. There are too many important stakeholders and any progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front is going to require all of the parties."
