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Bush travels to Israel for the country's 60th anniversary May 14, and Israel has threatened to reinvade Hamas' Gaza stronghold if it launches new attacks. A Hamas-provoked Israeli incursion would undermine pro-peace players on both sides and enrage Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which are key to negotiations. And it would cast Carter's latest peacemaking mission into the loss column...
...were encouraged to leave by their own leaders, assured they would soon return after an Arab victory. When this victory failed to materialize, these Palestinians were kept in refugee camps ¬and denied absorption by the same Arab governments that had encouraged them to leave.. Even in Gaza, now sovereign Palestinian territory, refugee camps endure, preserved by the same leaders vehemently demanding a refugee right of return. This singular focus on the dispossession of the Palestinian Arabs and the culpability of Israel, without acknowledgment of the injustice done to these refugees by their own leaders...
Good idea: but then Hamas blew up the border wall between Gaza and Egypt, making themselves, not Abbas or Israel, real liberators in the eyes of many Arabs and Palestinians, and making a paper-only deal seem like just that. Though Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continues to work the issue ahead of Bush's trip to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary in mid-May, even White House spokesperson Dana Perino admits, "We have a hell of a lot of work...
...Gaza rockets and withdrawal from peace talks not helping
...Israel argues that it is no longer the occupying power in Gaza and therefore no longer has responsibility for the Palestinians living there. But many international agencies say that since Israel controls all land, air and sea access to Gaza, it cannot shirk its responsibility to Palestinians trapped inside, nor can it deny Palestinians the right to urgent medical care if they refuse to become Israeli collaborators.With reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Erez