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Date: 2/17/2007 12:56:43 PM Sender: By VOA News

                                  US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Arrives in Israel
                                                         By VOA News
                                                       17 February 2007
  
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (file photo)  

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Israel for meetings aimed at reviving stalled peace talks between the Israeli and Palestinian governments.

Rice is to hold a three-way meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday in Jerusalem.

The secretary of state is due to meet with her Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni, later Saturday. The top American diplomat will meet separately with Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas on Sunday.

Also Saturday, aides to the Palestinian president say he has asked a U.S. envoy to give the new Palestinian unity government a chance.

Officials Saturday told reporters that Mr. Abbas told U.S. envoy David Welch that the agreement between the moderate Fatah faction and the Islamic militant group Hamas was the best deal they could reach.

The coalition government has not explicitly said it will recognize Israel - a condition that Washington demands.

Rice has said the upcoming meeting on Monday will be an informal discussion of what a two-state solution of the Middle East conflict will entail.

Her trip follows a Saudi-brokered agreement on February 8 to form a Palestinian unity government between Mr. Abbas＇ Fatah faction and Hamas.

Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday he hopes to form a new government within three weeks. Rice says the United States will reserve judgment on the new Palestinian government until it is formed.

International donors froze aid to the Palestinian Authority after Hamas took power last year, because of the militant group＇s refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel.

The United States and Israel classify Hamas as a terrorist organization.

Rice is scheduled to visit Jordan later in the week before heading to Berlin for a meeting of the international Quartet for Mideast peace. The Quartet is comprised of the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union.

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