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...Such an agreement would unlikely garner immense support in either wealthy countries or the developing world. Westerners would complain about government spending going towards another country’s economy; those in developing nations would complain about mandatory emissions cuts. The reality with any international treaty is that every side has to compromise. But this proposal would provide enough benefits to all parties that it is an idea well worth pursuing...
...fill-ups" no more time-consuming than topping up fuel tanks with gas. Nissan also has a tie with Europcar, a car-rental company, to roll out EVs throughout European countries including France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy and the U.K. from 2010. And the Renault-Nissan alliance has an agreement with Monaco to develop a charging network there over the next two years. "Charging stations are like a security blanket," says Richter. "People don't want to have to worry that they're going to be stuck...
Since the death of Abbas' predecessor, Yasser Arafat, U.S. peace efforts have relied on the moderate and relatively pliable leader to negotiate a two-state agreement with Israel. But the prevailing view within Fatah is that Abbas has achieved precious little for his negotiation efforts and that this has been a prime factor in weakening Fatah in the face of the challenge by its more militant rival, Hamas. The Islamists trounced Fatah in the last democratic elections for the Palestinian parliament in 2006, and many fear that a candidate backed by Hamas would likely beat Abbas in presidential elections currently...
Then again, making a deal on the terms currently on offer is clearly not the priority for much of Fatah, which believes that such an agreement would kill its organization. Instead, the conference will seek to rebrand Fatah with a more radical stance in order to more effectively compete with Hamas. Unlike Arafat, who framed his negotiation strategy with Israel in revolutionary language (which, of course, heightened Israeli suspicions over his bona fides as a peacemaker), Abbas is unable to couch his positions in the language of struggle, and without Arafat's charisma, he is seen as lacking a clear...
...boycott of the organization has failed to weaken its influence - and, of course, when the Israelis want to discuss a cease-fire or a prisoner exchange, it is with Hamas that they're forced to deal, albeit via Egyptian mediators. The fast-emerging conventional wisdom is that no peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is possible without the consent of Hamas, which is why Western and Arab governments have set much store by Egypt's efforts to mediate a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. The dynamics around the conference, however, are likely to render that prospect more remote...