Aren't you taught in scripture "not to put your trust in a confidential friend?" i mean we can all have friends and enjoy company but our integrity to God and his purpose for Israel, can not be undermined by any human relationship. Its a wonderful lesson to learn and it leaves you freedom to make correct decisions.

this is freindship made in heaven,both of them are enemies of israel and of the jewish people, the only diference is that condeleeza is a enemy,and zippy is a traitor

Remember, israel is nothing without USA!! Blind support when Israel was serving the US interests, now Israel must comply or disapear, as simple as that!! In politics only interests count. Today US interests require a strong and democratic Palestinian state, that exactly what's going to happen!!

The Texas Mafia which includes Bush Jr., Dick, and Rice will destroy Israel if you let them mess around with Israeli policies. Best example is what they did to the United States they destroyed our economy, killed our soldiers for a pointless war for oil, we have lost our freedom of privacy, the dollar is plummeting and the middle class is being foreclosed on. This is what happens when the confederates our in the white house.

Livni and Olmert have no guts they accepted to be insulted by Rice without saying anything in return. The relationship between the US and Israel is not balanced as it should be. The US are not as strong as they pretend to be and Israel has alternatives while the US has no reliable and serious alternatives in the ME. If the Yanks are willing to be insulted and assaulted by Arabs, serve them right, they won't win their friendship nor their respect. Moreover by being more and more aligned on the Arab positions they are even losing their own deterrence against Arabs since they are not able to present Israel as a counter-weight in their game. If Israel changes her policies toward the US, they will lose everything and they will eventually be expelled from the ME. Right now, the Yanks are bowing to Arabs who want their help in their genocidal project. They cannot been regarded anymore as a reliable ally. Israeli weakness will only encourage them to solve their problems at Israel expense, it's time to make them understand that Israel is more powerful than they will ever be in the ME. Israel must rethink her foreign policies in wake of American weakness and unreliabilty and must be ruthless with Arabs and Iranians.

At last, an intelligent article. Thank you Mr.Landau.

Livni was so isolated in Annapolis, that she had to turn to Rice for approval. There have been rumours abotu Rice's sexuality, perhaps this is what Livni is so smitten by. Or perhaps like every weak Israeli politiician, she thinks she has hit the big time by dallying with Americans. She has no idea. I had hoped that the arab discrimination of Livni the pariah would wake her up, but it seems not..

At Annapolis. http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/115841 I am proud to have left this racists regime

One of the reasons that France has been universally disliked by its neighbors and partners since DeGaulle has been precisely because it acts according to what it perceives as its interests. Would Dr. Landau also characterize the relationship between the Americaqn people and Israel as a mutuality of interests rather than a friendship? Are these two kinds of relationship mutually exclusive? Are you implying that Ms. Rice has betrayed her friend?

You people's conspiracy theories and bile know no limits. Neither Livni (whom I really dislike and distrust) nor Ms Rice is a problem; the problem are Judeofascists with wet dreams of a greater Israel who--unless put in their place--are going to cost us the whole country in the end.

In 1976 George Washington wrote to Alexander Hamilton: "The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."

... then there would have been no problem; but to become a friend of someone who has half expressed a vague interest in the possible eventual establishment of a disarmed, not-really-independent miniscular Palestine bantustan alongside the mighty nuclear Zionist super-state... well that is too much for any self respecting Israeli to tolerate.

"the problem are Judeofascists with wet dreams of a greater Israel who--unless put in their place--are going to cost us the whole country in the end." It's nice to know what "the problem are," but racist hoods like Secular Eagle are usually losers who couldn't make it through high school. Secular Eagle has one message and one message only: vicious hatred of religious Jews. Secular Eagle is a voice of Nazi-like anti-Semitism in our time.

You must be joking. palestinians would be nothing but nomads if it were not for the billions in hand outs they get from the stupid West. palestinians will never have a viable state because everything they touch turns to crap. Look at Gaza, it is one big toilet. Democratic? right until Hamas fully takes control, then they will be ruled by hizballah and Iran.

I can actually see something that many have failed to see. Ms. Rice is the smitten one, not Livni. If anyone has been 'taken for a ride', it was Condi, and now she is taking out her frustrations on an entire country. She is a dangerous woman. From what I see Livni knows the mess she is in, but have no fear Livni will cleverly detangle herself from the deranged woman Condi has become.

Personal chemistry is important in at least having open communication---Livni was in the Mossad; give her some credit for not giving away Israel because she wants to have a friend in the US!

As in We thought being your friend was a good thing until we learned that you are a foul mouthed anti-semite and a sociopath.

yahn goodey visions-mahmoud abbas mastermind of munich massacre----------and more to come.

And the obvious has been obvious for decades. The US is NOT your ally. Anything it has ever done for you has been for their own strategic benefit. They have helped your arab enemies dismantle your battleground successes since your modern history restoration.The US gov't has never been your ally. They have used you for their own gain. Your disgusting, treasonous gov'ts--past & present --are itching to give away Judea, Golan and the Temple Mount!! Time for very serious actions to take back your country from the world , who will always be anti-semetic!! WAKE UP ISRAEL !!!

The rise of a " strong and democratic Palestinian state" in this decade or the next has about as much chance of happening as the tide not coming in. Reality always seems to completely defeat dreams & expectations in the ME.

She is a moron and an idiot and needs to be made to resign her kapo role by any means immediately.

Landau has no need to get excited. He knows very well that Israel has no intention of agreeing, ever, to anything approaching a full and just solution to the Israeli problem. So the charade of "negotiations" will be played out for six months or so and then we'll be right back where we started (although Israel will have nibbled away a few more dunams of Palestinian land in the interim).

Condi is a BLACK girl she must be sit in different CLASSroom than Livni's according to Israeli spirit.

Ameristan. Bought and paid for by the Saudi oil plan to destroy Israel. Bush is too dumb to realize we're watching this village idiot more closely. Holding hands with a smelly saudi prince said it all. Let them tango into hell together.

Wake up clown, blacks under Muslim majority are dead and maimed, does that bother you because they're black? Probably not. Bush and Rice both have less than one functioning brain and all oil $$ responses from their arab handlers. America's fighting the Saudis war in Iraq. That's okay with you? Take black out of the equasion and Condi is still a dummy hired and paid for by the saudis. They stink and so do you. If YOU"RE BLACK and a muslim, you're in danger in Darfur. Any comment on that? Probably not, you delusional putz. Black white, green has no monopoly on brains.

all her land clean from those who would murder her . If talks produce this, rave on! p.s. take your rock and rounded dome with you when you leave.

To 121407: We should remind some of these posters that we Jews started, and financed, and lost brave souls during the "Black" civil rights movement. We have fought for blacks, everywhere in the US, while others wear KKK hoods, or make smart, insulting remarks behind their backs. We fought for racial equality and justice, in every endeavor. We hired blacks where no one wanted them. We promoted busing. Our legislators (much to my chagrin, are the most liberal--to a fault. Both blue states have Jewish senators. In Israel, the Arabs have it better than any Arab country. Telling off this putz was right. That said: I heard LIvni being interviewed on US TV numerous times. She is naive, a dreamer..and kowtows to, yes, the US. Israel needs a new election. Bring back Bibi and a tough supporting case, includiing a new P.M. I would even grant a non-Jew, who makes aliyah to Israel, like John Bolton, F. M. Israel has no Golds, or Gurions or Begins or Shamirs left it seems. The post -Zionists are a mess...most especially that character Tony kushner. I mean, this guy is trouble big time..and a piece of work. Condi and he ought to get together,,and bring Livni along for laughs. She is a shame., a disgrace to Israel and the Jewish people. Those 20 added provisions to the Road Map, should have been insisted on by Israel..OR, NO ROAD MAP (WHICH IS IN EFFECT, A FARCE). But I fault Israel's population for not taking legitimate action while all this is going on. Hamas now is threatening to increase violence..while Israel panders to the teachers.

...Israelis aren't paying attention, so they will continue to pay the price for their confusion and political apathy.

The only way could convice America that it is an independent country is to return the next check coming out of the American tax payers funds to the State of Israel. Until Israel does that, everyone who bitches about the US must put a sock in it.