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...afford to wait. With last week's declaration of a truce between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, relations between the two sides have reached their warmest level in years--owing in large part to Abbas' willingness to confront the violence that wreaked havoc on Palestinian society under Yasser Arafat. But Abbas is in an excruciating bind. While he needs to move fast to accommodate Israeli demands, he also risks reprisals from his own people that could cost him his job and very possibly his life. No sooner had Abbas agreed to a cease-fire last Tuesday than Palestinian militants staged...
However, Sharansky warned that the free world quickly forgot the lesson learned in the Soviet Union. He pointed to U.S. support for Saddam Hussein and Yassir Arafat in recent decades...
...when they met 18 months ago at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, and the resulting truce, was, then as now, hailed as a new beginning. That deal collapsed within weeks, and many of the factors that contributed to its demise have not been fundamentally altered. To be sure, Yasser Arafat, blamed by the U.S. and Israel for sabotaging the peace effort, has gone. But that hasn't narrowed the chasm between the two sides on such fundamental questions as where to draw borders, the status of Jerusalem, and more immediately the future of Israeli settlements and the seperation fence...
...trip to Sharm el-Sheikh, fearing it might actually hurt him in his fight against Hamas. "You need to put your own house in order first," says a Fatah chief. To do that, Abbas must deal with Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who refuses to cleanse the Cabinet of Yasser Arafat's cronies and opposes Abbas' pick for Interior Minister. Referring to the upcoming talks, Qurei told an aide last week, "I expect another Aqaba failure," likening the summit to one held in Jordan...
...more wisely over the years we could have helped reduce the death and destruction caused by the tsunami. Laura Geisel Redondo Beach, California, U.S. Tall Order for Abbas In his "Letter from Gaza," Matt Rees referred to the "culture of waste and corruption that ruined the Palestinian economy under Arafat" [Jan. 10]. I don't think that ruin can be laid solely at Yasser Arafat's door. How about the brutal invasion of Palestinian towns and villages by the Israeli army that prevented travel, trade and education, and physically destroyed the Palestinian Authority? And what of the separation wall, which...