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...president who remains besieged by the Israelis in the ruins of his Ramallah compound, and had been left for dead politically by the Bush administration. Sidelining Arafat had been a precondition for the administration's renewed engagement in the stalled peace process, but the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas - appointed under strong pressure from the Bush administration - and his replacement by Ahmed Qureia is a reminder that Arafat still remains in charge of Palestinian affairs...
...their lives by signing on to the road map and the cease-fire. "We didn't agree to all this just to reopen the Gaza road," said a Hamas supporter a few weeks ago. Israelis, just as impatiently, expected the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, under Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, to arrest, disarm and dismantle Hamas and other militant bands. Neither side delivered, and each accused the other of purposefully stalemating progress...
...failure of President Bush?s Middle East peace "roadmap" will likely be blamed on the actors: Mahmoud Abbas lacked the strength and the political will to stamp out Hamas; Yasser Arafat remained effectively in charge, undermining the efforts of Abbas so as to ensure his own continued relevance; Ariel Sharon didn?t take seriously the need for Israel to bolster Abbas and made only token gestures toward the "roadmap," and so on. But the fatal flaw in the "roadmap" lies not with the actors, but in the script itself. A look at how we go here, and what it will...
...perceptive commentary by Camp David veterans Robert Malley and Hussein Agha notes, none of the key participants - Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas - saw the "roadmap" as a path to a solution; they saw it instead as a tactical challenge, brought on by diplomatic pressures, in their ongoing struggle. Each had his own goals: Arafat?s and Sharon?s were mirror opposites; Abbas?s were different from both, but his negligible political standing made him a marginal figure except in the wishful thinking of President Bush. Abbas adopted the ?roadmap? and then equivocated on implementing it; Sharon artfully avoided...
...enough for the Bush Administration, by Friday the President's Middle East peace "roadmap" appeared to be on the verge of collapse. Hamas and Islamic Jihad stated the obvious the previous day in announcing that their truce with Israel is dead, and with it may go the government of Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian prime minister has been reduced to an impotent spectator by the resumption of hostilities - a terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 20 Israelis, followed by the assassination of a senior Hamas leader, with both sides vowing more. No longer content to indulge Abbas...