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...Amid the ongoing bloodletting among Palestinians in Gaza - nearly 30 have been killed since fighting erupted last Thursday between gunmen of Hamas and Fatah - Israelis could be forgiven for thinking that Palestinians were too distracted to launch attacks on Israel. But the bakery attack was a grotesque reminder that some Palestinian groups still have Israel locked in their sights - and the authors of bombing may even have hoped to send a message to Hamas and Fatah, locked in a murderous power struggle, not to lose sight of their principal...
...Israel's government now faces a dilemma: Should it retaliate for the Eilat bombing and risk uniting the warring Palestinian factions against the traditional common foe; or should it sit back and continue to watch Hamas and Fatah shoot each other in a growing civil war? The men who sent the bomber appear to have been betting on retaliation...
...Abbas evasively replied to Rice that "he would think about" attending the summit. Just a few hours after Rice's Middle East road trip has moved on, Abbas was already under pressure from Hamas and from his own Fatah movement not to go. As one senior Fatah Central Committee member, a veteran of several past tripartite summits, told TIME: "We go and meet the Israeli Prime Ministers and what do we get? Lies, lies, lies. So in the eyes of Palestinians we become partners to these lies...
...sure bet that won't happen. The two rival Palestinian factions-Abbas's Fatah movement and the Islamic militants Hamas, which run the government-are now shooting at each other, and it is doubtful that they could agree on Israel's terms before the summit...
...Rice also warned Abbas that the Bush Administration took a dim view of the Palestinian leader's proposed trip to Damascus for a meeting with Hamas's exiled leader Khaled Mashaal in a bid to pacify the near-civil war that has erupted in recent months between militants of Fatah and Hamas. Rice made it clear to Abbas, said one Palestinian source, that "she's worried Hamas will impose its conditions on Abbas...