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...Consider the radical Islamists of Hamas, who find themselves under pressure at home from Hizballah--a lethally efficient militia based in Lebanon and labeled a terrorist group by the U.S. Exploiting its burgeoning popularity in Palestine, Hizballah has cultivated an extensive network of operatives in the West Bank and Gaza since the intifadeh started 32 months ago. This makes Hamas--which has both its political turf and a reputation as Israel's chief nemesis to protect--rather jittery...
...security tactics make it impossible for him to disarm terror groups, and that no Palestinian leader can wage a campaign against militants unless Palestinians can be shown that such a crackdown would lead inexorably to statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. All of this, of course, is familiar ground. The Bush administration had hoped that twisting Yasser Arafat's arm to appoint Abbas would somehow break the logjam, but when Sharon met with Abbas and senior PA figures last Saturday, the change of faces on the Palestinian side of the table...
...major cease-fire initiatives of the past two years (which require that the militants be disarmed), but is deliberately vague on issues such as the eventual borders of a Palestinian state. In the absence of a clear political horizon that ends the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Abbas is struggling to find support for the crackdown on militant organizations being urged on him by Israel and the Bush administration...
...either settlements or peace. Both cannot go together." Saeb Erakat, ex-Palestinian chief negotiator, on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's statement that dismantling Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, as stipulated in the "road map to peace," was not "on the horizon right...
...Bush administration putting pressure on Israel to settle with the Palestinians - as the first Bush administration did followings its victory over Iraq - is an unlikely scenario, at best. This Bush administration is sharply divided over the very principle of Israel withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza as a means of securing peace, and despite President Bush promising Tony Blair that he would engage passionately in the pursuit of Middle East piece in the wake of Saddam's ouster, putting pressure on Israel is not a natural choice for a Republican president a year away from his reelection campaign, with...