Report: Rice Compares Life in U.S. South to Palestinians' Plight.

Israel Faxx, November, 2007

By Ha=92aretz

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a closed meeting of Arab and Israe= li envoys in Annapolis this week that her childhood in the segregated U.S. = south helped her to understand the plight of Palestinians and the fear felt= by Israelis, the Dutch representative to the summit, Franz Timmermans, tol= d the Washington Post on Thursday.

"I know what its like to hear that you can't use a certain road, or pass th= rough a checkpoint because you are a Palestinian. I know what it is like to= feel discriminated against and powerless," Rice was reported as saying.

Rice described her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama during the era of segre= gation and the killing of four young girls in the bombing of Birmingham's 1= 6th Street...

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