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...That night, after Rice left the Ramallah meeting, Abbas and his aides debated whether he should boycott the following day's summit. In the end, Abbas decided to go. His aides say Abbas, as angry as he was, did not want to risk an open clash with the U.S. Secretary of State...
...close Abbas aide tells TIME that the Palestinian leader nearly boycotted Monday's three-way summit after a stormy session with Rice the day before in Ramallah. Witnesses to their meeting say it soured when Rice accused Abbas of "retreating from previous commitments" by agreeing to share power with the militant Islamic group Hamas...
...while. Olmert's popularity is scraping the floor at 14%, and persuading Israelis that he should negotiate with a new Palestinian government containing Hamas - terrorists, in most Israelis' eyes - will be a hard sell. Meanwhile, Abbas has been telling Rice's aides, shuttling back and forth between Jerusalem to Ramallah in armored cars, that "he wants something to sell to the Palestinian people" before he will begin discussing the deeper issues of co-existence between Palestinians and Israelis. For starters, Abbas wants Olmert to return an estimated $500 million in Palestinian tax money, lift some of the 400 Israeli roadblocks...
...After Rice and her phalanx of bodyguards and advisers left Abbas's office in Ramallah, one Palestinian source close to the Palestinian president reported gloomily that "She didn't bring anything new." He added: "The American 'Road Map' is a dead body, and implementing the plan will enable Israelis to swallow more of the West Bank." The reasoning, say Abbas supporters, is that Abbas cannot comply with Rice's demands that he disarm Hamas militants, and Abbas's failure to do this will embolden the Israelis to erect more Jewish settlements inside the Palestinian territories. "What she's asking - this...
...Massasa says. “At Harvard, I met people from Lebanon and Jordan. Sometimes it was awkward, but it opened up a lot of possibilities for conversation that I didn’t have in Israel.”Mohammed J. Herzallah ’07, originally from Ramallah, West Bank, says while he has Israeli friends and has studied Israeli society, “as a Palestinian, I hope that my Harvard peers who served in the Israeli army have come to appreciate the scope of suffering in the Palestinian territories.”Nadav S. Greenberg...