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...when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agrees, at the prodding of the Bush Administration, to release to President Mahmoud Abbas $100 million of the Palestinian Authority funds it has frozen - and Abbas's aides then tell the New York Times that the money will be used "to strengthen his Fatah movement and pay salaries to Fatah loyalists." Clearly, the U.S. and Israel have come full circle on the question of Palestinian governance: Now that Yasser Arafat is gone, they appear to be reinventing...
...Even when Arafat died, and was replaced as President by Abbas after an election that was hardly competitive (Hamas didn't run), the U.S. continued to press for democratization, insisting that the PA go ahead with new legislative elections despite Israel's misgivings and warnings from the Fatah leadership that elections would weaken their position. And sure enough, Hamas took the opportunity to contest its first-ever PA elections, which it won handily as the electorate repudiated Abbas's party for its rampant corruption and its failed political strategy...
...create new Palestinian security forces answerable directly to Abbas, and now appears to be finding ways to channel funds directly to him - even as his aides make clear that these monies will be used not to meet humanitarian needs or keep Palestinian institutions going, but to pay off Fatah loyalists. And the U.S. is widely believed to be pressing President Abbas to topple the democratically elected government, by calling for early elections - though it's not clear that he is constitutionally empowered...
Steps to dismantle the Hamas-led government should begin this week now that Hamas and Fatah have agreed on a Prime Minister. Officials expect to declare a unity government before December...
...They revived old plans to form a cabinet of technocrats as a way to dodge international sanctions against the government of Hamas, aimed at forcing the organization to renounce violence and recognize Israel. Palestinians negotiators told TIME that the new cabinet may still contain nine Hamas ministers, six from Fatah, five independents including Prof. Shabir, and four others from parties within the parliament. The next foreign minister is likely to be to a Georgetown educated professor, Ziad Abu Amr, 56, who has ties with Hamas even though he criticized their suicide bombing spree (halted since 2004) and thinks that...