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...next President will have to be a skilled diplomat as well. And when it comes to Rudy and diplomacy, fuhgeddaboutit! Two incidents from his mayoralty are illustrative. The first came in 1995, when he unceremoniously kicked Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat out of a U.N.-related concert for world leaders at Lincoln Center. The ejection came just after Israel agreed to Palestinian self-rule. The Clinton Administration was hoping--in vain, it turned out--that treating Arafat with respect might grease the path to peace. But Giuliani said, "I would not invite Yasser Arafat to anything, anywhere, anytime, anyplace...
...meeting of Fatah's Central Committee, according to a Committee member who was in attendance, Abbas was fiercely criticized for "engaging in a public relations stunt" and accused of "helping [Olmert] without getting anything in return." Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan commands his own following, as does another of Yasir Arafat's ex-capos, Marwan Barghouti, despite being in jail. More recently, another faction, this one led by former Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, has also become more vocal in its opposition to Abbas, worrying that by rubbing shoulders with Olmert and U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice, he is costing Fatah much needed...
...means to block those efforts, says one Hamas military commander. He did not take responsibility for the kidnapping but did say, referring to Haniyeh and Mashal, "We are not going to let them sell us out as Fatah sold out its fighters" with the Oslo Agreement in 1993, when Arafat formally recognized Israel. (In the past year, kidnapped reporters have mostly been released within a matter of days, though a team from Fox was held for two weeks; Palestinian authorities have said they are searching without pause for Johnston...
...seeds were planted by Yasser Arafat. When he ran the Palestinian Authority, Arafat's ruling philosophy involved playing numerous security forces against each other, so no single one could ever become too powerful. The result: several organizations, no clear hierarchy, a lot of guns and a lot of people with interests they want to protect. Hamas has its own forces, too, including its powerful Executive Force and the Izzadine al Qassam Brigades. Then there are other insurgent groups and numerous clans, gangs, and families with their own militias and interests, ranging from offering protection to taking revenge, from committing crimes...
...argument and blamed the Palestinian people for the irresponsibility of their political leaders.” Dershowitz opened the talk with a brief history of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, remarking that Carter was “responsible in part” for convincing the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to walk away from a deal that would have created two separate states in the region. “He’s the reason Palestine isn’t today a state,” Dershowitz said. Some of his harshest words came in response to a passage from Carter?...