A New Middle East
25th July 2006
It is time to say to those who do not want a different kind of Middle East that we will prevail.
Ms Rice ... expressed concern for the suffering of "innocent people" in the fighting during her tour of the Middle East.
The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson, in Jerusalem, says it was understood that Ms Rice would tell Israel that the US will allow it more time to continue its military operations.
Ms Rice has, however, also been highlighting the need for Israel to consider the humanitarian needs of both Lebanon and the Palestinian people and the need for a durable peace.
She said: "It is time for a new Middle East, it is time to say to those who do not want a different kind of Middle East that we will prevail; they will not."
Ms Rice arrived in Israel from Beirut, where she met Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
