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...Jamil Hamad: According to my sources in the Palestinian Authority (PA), there is a sense of anger and betrayal - although perhaps you have to measure that against the way they were treated by the Clinton administration. There's now a feeling that the U.S. administration is abandoning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, trying to stay away from it. They see the Bush administration betting on Egypt and Jordan to pressure the PA to denounce terror and resume security coordination with Israel. But according to my source, Washington is being too optimistic...
...That may be a good slogan when you're talking to the angry masses, but in real politics it simply means getting into a direct confrontation with the Israelis. Until now, Sharon has treated the PA and Arafat as a rival rather than enemy, but the Israeli leader is under pressure to deal with Arafat as an enemy - and that could be a disaster for Arafat. For the last 10 years, he counted on the American fire brigade to come and put out the fire, but that's not going to happen. The Arab world is incapable of doing...
...have cut the big-sister apron strings long ago. Too bad Hillary didn't take a firmer stand while her brother was staying at the White House. Perhaps if she had limited Hughie's access to the President, she wouldn't be scrambling now. MAUREEN KINNEY Coopersburg, Pa...
...Other elements of the Oslo accord designed to build trust were also ignored. The original PLO charter calling for the destruction of the State of Israel was never amended in writing. Terrorists who were required to be arrested and disarmed by the PA, have instead actually partnered with them in recent months. New Palestinian textbooks for grade school children released last September, which were supposed to reverse the cycle of hate, are designed to ensure its continuance. Unlike Israel's revised history curriculum that now examines portions of the recent past through Palestinian eyes, the books issued by the PA...
...fact, on a daily basis, the average Palestinian is saturated with messages of anger and hate against Israelis by the PA-controlled media. It's no wonder a recent Bir Zeit University poll found that 74 percent of Palestinians feel that even if East Jerusalem were to come under Palestinian control, Israel has no right to be in West Jerusalem. Predictably, although Israel continues to have a formidable peace movement with the goal of reaching out to their Arab brethren, no comparable movement exists among Palestinians...