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...among ordinary Palestinians than does his appointed prime minister. Among ordinary Palestinians, Abbas is viewed as an integral part of a Palestinian Authority many consider corrupt, and the impetus for his appointment is seen as coming primarily from the U.S. and Israel. His weakness relative to Arafat within the PA was demonstrated in the showdown over his cabinet, in which he was forced to concede to many of Arafat's demands. Now, with the "roadmap" process having been tied directly to his ouster, Arafat has little incentive to help his prime minister deliver, and plenty of reason to do what...
...military incursions. Abbas desperately needs an easing of those conditions in order to demonstrate that his way can bring positive change to Palestinian lives. But Israel's actions are guided by its security concerns, and there may not be much more than symbolic gestures towards the Palestinians until the PA security forces launch a crackdown. Abbas may have previously argued that he is unable to act against Hamas and other militant groups until the Israelis have loosened their grip. But now Washington is setting the agenda, sending a team of 12 monitors to the region this weekend to oversee implementation...
...provide a pretext to resume terror strikes - although statements from Hamas leaders following the Aqaba summit defiantly rejected any notion of a cease-fire. Abbas is also making clear to the Israelis and Americans that he can't act against terrorism while Israeli troops continue to conduct raids inside PA territory, and that Israeli restraint is the key to any success. But given the relative certainty that one or all of the militant groups will sooner or later send suicide bombers to veto the latest peace plan, such restraint may prove difficult for Sharon to maintain and for the Bush...
...Abbas, appointed prime minister by Arafat under pressure from the international community, certainly has important differences with the PA president, most importantly over the 30-month armed intifada which Abbas sees as having brought the Palestinians nothing but misery and international isolation. The new prime minister wants the violence stopped and negotiations resumed, believing that even if Sharon is unwilling to grant the Palestinians' bottom-line demands, stopping terror will swing international (and even Israeli) public opinion back behind the Palestinian pursuit of statehood in the 1967 territories...
...modification to ensure territorial contiguity. And the surest indicator of what he has in mind may well be the security fence Israel is currently building to separate Israelis from West Bank Palestinians. Rather than follow the 1967 borders as originally proposed, Sharon's proposed fence essentially encircles the current PA territories in the West Bank, keeping most of the settlements and more than half the land of the West Bank in Israeli hands. Sharon's aides explained his "occupation" remark as a reference to Israeli rule over Palestinian population centers, rather than to the lands conquered in 1967. In other...