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After making a four-minute statement in the Rose Garden this morning, President Bush wended his way through the Cabinet members arrayed behind him as a television correspondent bellowed, with various others joining in: "Mr. President, did you feel pressure to make staff changes?" The President was grinning noticeably as he ducked back into the Oval Office, as if to say: Let ?em holler! The replacement of Bush?s first chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., with budget director Joshua B. Bolten may foster a badly needed sense of renewal and produce headlines about a shakeup. But this...
...coalition partner. In the meantime, Israelis may be clearing space on their bumpers for post-election stickers about Olmert, who is so certain of winning that, in a fit of hubris, he dispatched an envoy to London to pick up pointers on how Prime Minister Tony Blair runs his cabinet...
...message appeared to be that the PLO's legitimacy trumps that of the Palestinian Authority, the democratically elected body it helped to create with the Oslo Accords. But that is, at best, a dubious proposition, since the PLO actually has no formal constitutional role to play in approving the cabinet. Hamas, which is not part of the PLO and is not likely to take orders from it, now holds 74 seats in the Palestinian Legislature - a lot more than the parties affiliated with...
...action underscores the fact that Fatah lacks a clear program, and is breaking up into fiefdoms run by local warlords: In Gaza, on Monday, Fatah-aligned gunmen who attacked a Palestinian police station and electricity utility were repelled by mostly Fatah-aligned Palestinian policemen. Hamas, meanwhile, has picked a cabinet designed to show a responsible face to the world: Its nominee for finance minister, economist Omar Abdel Razzak, has said that financial cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians is in the best interests of both sides, and should continue. He believes it will, since he also thinks Israel will move...
...that Hamas has refused to accept Abbas' party's bottom lines for sharing power - which included accepting existing agreements between Israel and the Palestinians - President Abbas faces yet another dilemma. He can either move to fire the new government by rejecting the cabinet nominees, creating a political crisis and forcing new legislative elections. Or he could resign his own position and force new presidential elections. Either way, however, Hamas would probably prevail at the polls...