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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/international/middleeast/07israel.html
U.S. Presses Israel to Smooth the Path to a Palestinian Gaza
(New York Times) Steven Erlanger - The Bush administration has increased pressure on the Israeli government in recent days to do more to make a Palestinian Gaza successful after Israeli settlers are pulled out later this month. Secretary of State Rice in particular has been forceful and even abrupt in her dealings with senior Israeli officials, including the foreign and defense ministers. Rice was initially considering a return trip to Israel next week to monitor the Gaza pullout, but has since decided against it. "She'll get credit if it works, and she doesn't want to be here if it doesn't," one American official in the region said. In Washington, a senior American official said that American involvement had increased sharply after Rice, in June, told reporters she wanted to avoid mediating the details of Gaza coordination. But since then her aides have been doing precisely that.