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...aging hawk. By setting out along the roadmap, and getting at least as far as a working cease-fire, they hope they can persuade the Israeli electorate to once again elect a Labor Party leader more willing than Sharon to cede all or most of the West Bank and Gaza...
...Israel has made clear that while it will indulge a cease-fire for now, it insists on dismantling of the organizations that have mounted terror attacks - an option unlikely to be acceptable to groups who remain far stronger and more popular on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza than Abbas...
Abbas doesn't have the deep roots in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that count for so much in Palestinian politics, where loyalties are often based on clan. Arafat, 73, brags of his descent from a Jerusalem family, whereas Abbas, 68, was born in the ancient Galilean town of Safed, now part of Israel. In 1948 his family fled to Damascus to escape the fighting of the first Arab-Israeli war. Abbas' best connections are in the Persian Gulf, where he was long the P.L.O.'s main man. In peace talks before and after the 1993 agreement, Abbas gained...
...like the word, but what's happening is occupation." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, using a controversial term to describe Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza. He later said he meant it as a reference to the Palestinian people, not the disputed territories...
...best asset Arafat, Hamas and others looking for Abbas to fail have going for them is the situation on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza, where millions of ordinary Palestinians struggle to survive amid the privations of constant Israeli closures and military incursions. Abbas desperately needs an easing of those conditions in order to demonstrate that his way can bring positive change to Palestinian lives. But Israel's actions are guided by its security concerns, and there may not be much more than symbolic gestures towards the Palestinians until the PA security forces launch a crackdown. Abbas...