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...there. Abbas agreed to go to Sharm el-Sheikh because he wants to show that he has Egypt's support in his effort to rein in the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Shaken by Hamas' overwhelming victory in last month's municipal elections in the Gaza Strip, Abbas' Fatah Party sees Egypt as a powerful ally in the political battle against the group...
...Many in Fatah aren't happy about Abbas' 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...
...Gaza checkpoint showed that extremists intend to use violence to bury any chance Abbas has of diplomatic progress - a strategy that yielded immediate results when Sharon suspended ties with Abbas the next day. Abbas is feeling pressure. At a meeting last week of the central committee of Fatah, Abbas' political party, there were heated exchanges between party officials who told Abbas that he must act soon to energize the economy and end violence. "People look to you as a reformer," said Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, according to Fatah officials who attended the meeting. "You have to prove that...
...much of the Palestinian electorate, they simply see him as an "acceptable" if uninspiring choice, one who represents the only chance at this stage of restoring a peace process, and one whom, once elected, will owe a substantial political debt to the Martyr's Brigade and the broader militant Fatah rank and file of which they form part. That's because it was the militants who cajoled the imprisoned popular Fatah militant Marwan Barghouti into withdrawing from the race and throwing his support behind Abbas. Barghouti may well have beaten Abbas in a head-to-head race, particularly since...
...Palestinian electorate a serious choice between contending views within the leading political organization over how to pursue their national aspirations, pitting a candidate favoring the armed intifada (Barghouti) against one favoring diplomacy (Abbas). Intead, Barghouti's withdrawal swept under the rug the profound divisions at the heart of Fatah, in the finest tradition of Arafat. And, like his predecessor, Abbas will be expected to be all things to all parties, with the al-Aqsa Brigade's endorsement serving as a rather heavy item of political of baggage shackled to his wrist as he assumes office...