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Afif Safieh, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission to the United States, told a full audience at the Institute of Politics last night that the current Palestinian governing coalition represents a crucial moment for the Middle East peace process...
...contact with the leader of Al-Qaeda, whom they hope to force out of hiding. However, most of the book languishes on the wholly uninteresting, poorly drawn relationship between the jaded protagonist, CIA operative Roger Ferris, and Alice Melville, a naïve charity worker who helps Palestinian refugees. What could be a thrilling story gets mired in the mundane details, particularly domestic spats between Roger and his wife Gretchen. While the tension begins to build at the end, the surprises that ensue seem to be almost gratuitous, for, by that point, the plot is so fatigued that even...
...million will mostly be devoted to training and equipping Abbas's 4,000-strong Presidential Guard, whose primary responsibilities are to protect the president and visiting dignitaries - such as Secretary Rice herself - and to guard the crossings into the Palestinian territory of Gaza at Rafah and Karni. But some Western envoys fear that strengthening Abbas' forces could help unravel the unity government. International observers and Palestinians claim that Abbas' Praetorian guard was hardly neutral during the recent civil conflict that wracked the Palestinian territories as gunmen from Fatah and Hamas traded fire for days on end: The president's forces...
...Gaza. A new plan, drawn up by U.S. Army general Keith Dayton, envisages installing the same X-ray machines used to screen trucks at U.S. borders at Karni. By allowing up to 400 commercial trucks to pass from Gaza to Israel each day, the U.S. hopes to stimulate the Palestinian economy...
...Palestinian unity government were to unravel, of course, its demise would would unlikely be mourned in Washington - Secretary Rice has made no secret of the fact that she was disappointed by the compact concluded between Abbas and Hamas in Mecca, under Saudi guidance. But her focus remains on nudging Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Abbas to keep talking. The two have announced plans to meet next week, keeping a commitment both made to Rice when she met with them last month. The Secretary of State hopes that regular contact between the two men will develop sufficient trust to allow...