| Foreign leaders who still talk to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat must pressure him to step aside, now that Israeli leaders are pushing a plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said. Rice, who has planned speeches in several states considered battlegrounds in the presidential race, said Monday there has to be a discussion with Arafat "to say, 'All right, land is now being returned to the Palestinian people. ... You said that's what you wanted all these years. Now is time to step aside." The conversation must be conducted by "by those who still talk to him ... we're not among those," Rice added. |