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...Palestinian political class fears that the Sharon's departure will not freeze, but will actually kill any hopes for progress toward a peace agreement in the near future. None of the Israeli leaders who could succeed Sharon would have the courage and initiative to take the steps that Sharon has taken, to say "we have to create a Palestinian state" and then set about making that happen. Sharon wasn't popular among the Palestinians, but his leadership is well respected. Sharon promised things that other Israelis did not promise...
...Israel will be caught up in internal political struggles and its next government is likely to be based on a very fragile coalition, in which everybody has to be accommodated. We won't see a leader who will mobilize Israelis behind an initiative. So, I think the Palestinians will suffer because of a lack of leadership in Israel, and a lack of leadership among themselves-Israeli mistrust of the Palestinians will grow because the Palestinian leadership has failed to enforce law and order, and stop the growing chaos in its own territories. And that will discourage Israelis from seeking...
...President Mahmoud Abbas faces a tough decision over whether to proceed with the January 25 Palestinian legislative election. His own Fatah party looks set to suffer a drubbing at the polls, further weakening his already tenuous political authority, but postponing the vote could have the same effect. So what will...
...over the ruling party to the younger generation of Fatah activists who will eclipse them if the vote goes ahead. For the same reason, the younger generation of Fatah leaders, grouped around the imprisoned West Bank leader Marwan Barghouti, want the election held on schedule, as do the other Palestinian groups. Hamas wants to use the election to make a show of its political strength-they want to share power with Fatah and use that position to clean up the Palestinian house, fighting corruption. This is the reason Fatah is scared to death of Hamas: The people on the street...
...disappointed to learn that Spielberg considered the heart of his movie to be a fictionalized incident in which a Palestinian terrorist engages in a civil discussion with an Israeli. By rewriting history to humanize the terrorists, Spielberg misses the whole point of the Munich massacre. If the terrorists had been inclined to make their case rationally, the all-too-real atrocities perpetrated against the Israeli national team at the 1972 Olympics would not have occurred...