Word: boycotts
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There's just one problem with that strategy: it won't work. The world clamped a boycott on the Palestinians after Hamas' victory over Fatah in the January 2006 elections; but as Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser under President Jimmy Carter, says, that U.S.-Israeli policy "put a lot of pressure on the Palestinians in Gaza, which helped to radicalize them without any compensatory relaxation for the Palestinians on the West Bank." The U.S.'s new "West Bank first" strategy aims to correct that shortcoming, but given the Palestinians' defiant mood, the tardy gift could turn into a nasty surprise...
...Hamas still gained support, largely because Abbas failed to rid himself of the corrupt officials that had turned the Fatah movement into a band of gangsters and mercenaries. To Palestinians, Hamas seemed disciplined and more honest, and Palestinians blamed the U.S. and Israel, not the Islamists, for the boycott's miseries. Meanwhile, Hamas sought and received backing from two of Israel's chief nemeses, Iran and Syria...
Underlying all of this activist rhetoric is the threat of an Olympic boycott, an idea that slipped into the political discussion in a Democratic Presidential debate June 3. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said China could use its influence to bring about a peaceful settlement in Darfur; or, the candidate said, "We say to them, maybe we won't go to the Olympics...
...acceptance of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur. Furthermore, Beijing is counting on the excitement leading up to the opening ceremony, and China's legendary hospitality, to take attention away from the protests. In April, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman was quoted in The Washington Post saying that a boycott for "any excuse or political reasons" would flout "the goodwill of the people from all over the world...
...sides. One of his few direct powers is to send invitations to the Lambeth Conference, and he announced in May that for now he was excluding just two people: Robinson and Martyn Minns, the bishop of Akinola's U.S. church. Akinola has threatened that Nigeria will boycott Lambeth, and Robinson hinted at wanting the Episcopalians to do likewise. But defections may be limited. Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies, an influential Global South leader, says his contingent will attend. Liberal Washington bishop John Chane said he will probably skip the conference out of loyalty to Robinson, but "I think...