By Stan Goodenough
Nov 22, 2007
Next week's US-sponsored international conference at Annapolis, Maryland, will mark the "launching point" that will lead to the establishment of an Arab state called Palestine in the heart of the biblical and historical land of Israel.
This is according to a press statement by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
The conference, McCormack said, "will signal broad international support for the Israeli and Palestinian leaders' courageous efforts."
Palestine's birth, he added, will lead to "the realization of Israeli-Palestinian peace."
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she hopes Annapolis will signal the start of a drive to reach a two-state solution [sic] to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before the end of President Bush's term late next year.