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...prove to be deeply significant. It marks a first move toward a return to the pre-September 2000 status quo after almost three years of trying by successive U.S. administrations and Arab and European diplomats. The current truce is based on agreements between Israel, the U.S., the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestinian militant organizations actually waging the armed intifada that began in September 2000. That's an important step, because it means that the many of the very groups who have spent the past decade trying to violently sabotage the 1993 Oslo accords are now finally seeking a nonviolent...
...Obviously I’m really excited,” said Reese, who was at home in Pittsburgh, Pa., not at the draft in Nashville, Tenn., when his name was called. “I was a bubble guy going in. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go at all, and I wasn’t expecting any higher than the fifth round at best, so the seventh round was right in the middle...
...that there's no pressure on Hamas: Although the movement's stature has been enhanced by the "roadmap" process - it is clear to ordinary Palestinians now that the PA is forced to seek the consent of the Islamists before embarking on a cease-fire - the group faces two sources of pressure: Arab governments, and Palestinian public opinion. Still widely viewed in the Arab world as a legitimate resistance movement to Israeli occupation, Hamas's welfare networks have been extensively funded from abroad (and the movement's terrorists obviously draw from the same coffers). Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in particular, have...
...Sharon believes implementation of the roadmap depends on the PA waging a "war on terror," but Hamas has has no intention of disarming and Abbas has no intention of using force against Hamas or any other Palestinian militant group - because he knows that armed with little more than the roadmap and the support of Israel and the U.S., he's unlikely to win a Palestinian civil war. Abbas has almost no independent political base, and his ability to deliver depends to a considerable degree on the extent to which he is able to win Yasser Arafat's backing - that...
...fiction of Arafat's irrelevance may soon be dispensed with - even Dahlan has signaled the aging leader that his loyalty remains with Arafat - but even with the support of the PA leader it's far from clear that Abbas can deliver a durable cease-fire. That the hudna agreement was reached through extensive consultation with Hamas, Jihad and Fatah militants currently held in Israeli prisons - the Fatah signatory is reportedly Marwan Barghouti, the high-profile West Bank Fatah leader currently on trial in Tel Aviv for terrorism - is testimony to the limits of Abbas's ability to be much more...