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...Although on her latest Middle East shuttle she managed to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to agree on holding regular meetings, Rice's efforts to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace are looking more like crisis management than visionary deal-making. She had hesitated to spell out exactly what she meant by "bold outreach," but had urged the Arab leaders heading for Riyadh to not merely to endorse a formula for peace - the Arab League's Beirut initiative, first adopted in 2002, calls for full peace and normalization of relations if Israel withdraws from Arab lands...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas flew to the Arab Summit in Riyadh today leaving behind angry Palestinian comrades in his wake. Abbas wimped out on them, they say. Before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived last Saturday in the Middle East, Abbas was coached by Fatah's governing Central Committee on how to talk tough with the Americans - not a specialty for Abbas, who is convivial but evasive...
...about to embrace Hamas either. However, if she wants to get something going between the Israelis and Palestinians, Rice will have to figure out a way to deal with Hamas - without explicitly dealing with Hamas. As it is, she intends to conduct wide-ranging talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (with whom Israel will speak) and last week had Jacob Walles, the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, meet with Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official and political independent. (After the Walles-Fayyad meeting, the State Department issued a statement declaring that "the U.S. will not suspend...
Often, the ideological intransigence of Hamas is blamed for impeding Palestinian unity. But on Sunday it was the moderate Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas who dealt a potentially debilitating blow to the nascent Palestinian "unity" government - by appointing Mohammed Dahlan, the most divisive figure on the Palestinian political scene today, to the office of National Security Adviser...
...officials pursued these measures as part of a wider campaign to limit the Guard's business activities abroad. U.S. Treasury official Stuart Levey recently argued that the IRGC's activities have expanded exponentially under the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad, and he claimed it "is used by the regime to provide a 'train and equip program' for terrorist organizations like Hizballah, as well as to pursue other military objectives of the regime." He also noted the Guard is taking over regular government functions such as management of the Tehran airport and building a new Tehran metro. "When corporations do business...