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...meeting with Suleiman and those that follow with President Hosni Mubarak, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Rice is expected to urge the Egyptians to follow up by denying aid to the Palestinian Authority until Hamas meets the conditions laid down by the international community. The Palestinians have been receiving about $1.9 billion a year in foreign aid, much of it from the Arab states. "I would hope that any state that is considering funding a Hamas-led government would think about the implications of that for the Middle East and for the Middle East peace...
Secretary Condoleezza Rice travels to Cairo, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi this week on a mission that has taken on a new urgency in the face of Iran's nuclear defiance and Hamas's assumption of control over the Palestinian parliament...
...Rice's first stop in Egypt is a closed-door session with Maj. Gen. Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence and an key Arab interlocutor with the Palestinians. Soon after the radical group Hamas stunned the world by winning an upset victory in the Jan. 26, Palestinian parliamentary elections, Sulieman added his voice to those of U.S., European and United Nations leaders in calling on Hamas to recognize Israel, abandon violence and commit to talks aimed at establishing a peaceful Palestinian state...
Despite Hamas' victory at the polls, the Bush Administration has refused to budge from its insistence that it will not deal with a Hamas-led government--or continue to provide funding to the Palestinian Authority, which received a total of $1.1 billion in foreign aid last year--unless the group renounces violence and recognizes the Jewish state. The Israeli government indicated last week that it plans to impose new restrictions on the ability of Palestinians to work in Israel and may slow the movement of Palestinian goods to Israel. Hamas bristles at such measures, arguing that it was elected democratically...
...bottom line is that there is no U.S.-Israeli plan, project, plot, conspiracy to destabilize or undermine a future Palestinian government." SEAN MCCORMACK, U.S. State Department spokesman, denying reports that the U.S. and Israel plan to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority or force new elections...