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...talks are the only means by which Palestinians may achieve a measure of self-rule. But any perception that the U.S. will subsidize Israel's settlement plans could lead the Palestinians to drag their feet in the peace process and subject those who favor the talks to criticism from rejectionist Arabs...
...Israelis don't want peace, and the Americans are not serious about pressing them." Those who are not merely dismissive of the conference tend to be vehemently opposed to participation in it, and they include the followers of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas as well as the so-called rejectionist factions of the P.L.O...
Even so, Assad's move underlines the extent to which once unfriendly countries are concluding that it is prudent to please the U.S., the world's sole remaining superpower. The Syrian President had long been a client of the Soviet Union and a leader of the rejectionist Arab states that opposed any dealing with Israel. But, American analysts believe, at the end of the gulf war Assad realized he had reached a turning point: he could become the unrivaled leader of Arab radicals -- or he could bid for status among the moderates. Assad decided, as one American diplomat puts...
...THIS REJECTIONIST POSTURE seems all the more irrational when one considers America's inclination toward tolerance and inclusion. As Harvard sociologist Nathan Glazer has observed, the American polity has "been defined by a steady expansion of the definition of those who maybe included in it to the point where it now includes all humanity...
Meanwhile, Egyptian police have made the bus killings their top priority. Evidence suggests the culprits were rejectionist Palestinian commandos rather than Egyptian fundamentalists, as was originally suspected...