Condi is the luckest woman in the world, she's not only got a new husband, but a new lover-Israel prime minister- Sharon.
They should find a room and get married
"...Rice brought a glint to Sharon's eye from the start.
"I must confess, it was hard for me to concentrate in the conversation with Condoleezza Rice because she has very nice legs," Sharon was widely quoted as saying several years ago about his first meeting, in 2000, with then-presidential candidate Bush's foreign policy adviser..."
""We have a friend in the White House, and this is important. The strategic ties between Israel and the United States have never been stronger."
It is conventional wisdom in Israel that Powell was, in the words of commentator Nathan Guttman in the Haaretz daily, "a figurehead, not a player" and that Middle East moves were directed by Bush and Rice, seen as friendlier toward the Jewish state.
As national security adviser in Bush's administration, Rice has spearheaded U.S. dealings with Sharon since he became prime minister in 2001, holding frequent meetings with his chief adviser, Dov Weisglass.
Rice has been a vocal advocate of a policy that adopted Sharon's refusal to deal with the late Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), and demanded a new Palestinian leadership "not compromised by terror."
"She's a very sharp player," one Israeli official said. "When she wants to be firm, she can be firm. When she wants to be tough, she can be tough."