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Also at Columbia, a College Republican complains that the university denied his group's request to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scheduled speech there. Of course, Ahmadinejad never came, so it's kind of a moot issue, but a compelling opinion piece nonetheless...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Middle East, hoping to bolster Arab moderates - foremost among them beleaguered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - and revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The unstated objectives include helping to topple the Hamas-led government elected by the Palestinians in January, and seeking to rally moderate Arab regimes against Iran. So what are her chances of success? Let's just say it's probably easier finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq than finding any Arabs or Israelis optimistic over Rice's prospects...
...beseeched the Bush Administration to give urgent attention to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But their chances of success are no better now than they ever were. The Bush Administration has shown no inclination to press Israel to accept the basic peace terms advocated by all Arab moderates, including Mahmoud Abbas: the 1967 borders as the premise of a peace deal, to which modifications can be negotiated on a quid pro quo basis...
...talk up Mahmoud Abbas and perhaps persuade the Israelis to ease their stranglehold on the border crossings in Gaza - until such time as security demands they be closed again. She can even find ways to channel some money through Abbas to bypass the elected government. But there are no indications that she intends to press the Israelis into a peace deal. And her Administration's efforts to topple Hamas through a financial siege may have rendered the Palestinian territories ungovernable, not only by Hamas but by anyone. Government is barely existent in much of the West Bank and Gaza, with...
...Anger has been steadily rising in recent weeks between Fatah gunmen loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas militants backing Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Both sides were anxious to work out a formula that would end Western sanctions, which had choked off foreign aid and tax money to the struggling Palestinian Authority and prevented the payment of salaries to 160,000 government workers over the past five months. The embargo had been imposed after Hamas, which won the January elections, took office in March. Israel, the U.S. and Europe all consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and made ending the financial...