What does this sentence mean?

Question

Here's the sentence:

"Both Rice and Livni face hard-liners in their governments who want to stick to the road map and make any movement on the peace process contingent on the Palestinians halting terrorism and cease-fire violations."

please explain what it says.

This is a sentence from an article, not a quote. Please don't give me you interpretation, but just the sentence restated in comprehensible terms.

Answer 1

"Both Rice and Livni face hard-liners (those who take a position and stick to it--who won't negotiate) in their governments who want to stick to the road map (they want to stick to a plan they have outlined, and will not move away from that plan) and make any movement on the peace process contingent on (they want to make any move towards peace rest on or be based on) the Palestinians halting terrorism and cease-fire violations." (the Palestinians stopping all terrorist activities and sticking to cease-fire agreements.)

Answer 2

The US Secretary of State (Condoleeza Rice) and the Israeli foreign Minister (Tzipi Livni) would like to come up with additional compromises to restart the peace process between the Palestinians and the Israelis, but they both face conservatives in their own governments who want to stick to the official peace plan, called the Road Map. This means that for them to move forward, the Palestinians have to stop all terrorist actions. Since the Palestinians have a hard time controlling all their people (for various reasons), the terrorist actions are likely to continue, meaning the peace process will not be seriously restarted.

Answer 3

This has to with the peace process in Israel. Condolezza Rice is our Secretary of State, and Tzipi Livni is Prime Minister of Israel. They would like to move forward with the peace process if possible, but some people in both governments feel that the Palestinians have to show real movement toward peace by halting all violations of the anti-terrorism and cease-fire agreements.

Answer 4

Background: Several years ago, a particular peace plan called "the road map" was worked out to the relative satisfaction of the USA, Israel, and the Palestinians. Some of its provisions were for there to be a halt to violence, and for the Palestinians to have a separate country.

"Hard-liners" are people who want to keep to a particular position, as opposed to displaying more flexibiity or compromise.

So, breaking the sentence into three paragraphs, it means this:

|--: Both [U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice and [Israeli Vice Prime Minister Tzipi] Livni face hard-liners -- that is, inflexible people -- in their own governments.

|--: Those inflexible people want to stick to the road map -- that is, they want to adhere closely to the exact terms already reached in the agreed-upon peace process.

|--: Such people would want to make movement towards peace contingent upon [Palestinian change] -- that is, such people advocate a policy of making no progress towards peace until the Palestinians halt their acts of terrorism and stop their violation of cease-fire agreements.

Does that help?

Answer 5

Rice is the US secretary of state. Livni is Israel's foreign minister (equivalent to US secretary of state). Both of them woud like to do more toward peace in the Middle East, but both work in governments that are dominated by people who won't change from their position that nothing can be done toward peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians stop their acts of terrorism and stop violating the cease-fire agreements.

Answer 6

It means Rice and Livni are facing opposition to their plan. Basically, their opposition in the government, is made up of people who want to follow a plan, with no deviations, and that plan has as its prime objective the cessation of terrorism and the implementation of a strick cease fire. Rice and Livni want a little more leeway, either in the negotiating process (rather than following the preconceived plant, no matter what comes up) or in the end goals, perhaps choosing cessation of terrorism over cease-fire implementation, or vice versa.

Answer 7

Rice and Livni face people in their respective countries who dont want to do anything special about stopping terrorism.

Answer 8

There are people in both gov'ts who will not move. you cannot change their minds or compromise with them. no matter what, if there is to be peace, Palestine MUST stop their terrorism and stop breaking cease-fire agreements.

Hope that is clearer.

Answer 9

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it

Answer 10

it means ummm nothing to me sorry !! Twitch