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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...
...Rice went on to say that Abbas' agreement to share power with Hamas, along with other Palestinian parties and independents, was "unacceptable to the U.S. or Israel." The Palestinian leader then took the offensive, witnesses say, and demanded to know why, after Rice publicly said she would reserve judgment on the new Palestinian government, President Bush telephoned Olmert to tell him that the U.S would never recognize the new cabinet. Rice dodged the subject, say Abbas aides, and talked only about expanding "political horizons." ("If she didn't know about Bush's phone call, she should resign," Abbas told aides...
...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...
...dissolve the [previous Hamas] government and call early elections," Rice said frostily, according to witnesses...
...most positive outcome of the summit is that Rice persuaded Olmert and Abbas to keep talking. But unless the three try harder next time, the U.S.-sponsored Road Map for Peace will lead in circles, going nowhere...