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...Friday the militant Islamist group Hamas announced that it would hold no further talks with Abbas on a proposed cease-fire, accusing him of having sold out the Palestinian cause by agreeing at Aqaba to end the intifadah without securing Palestinian demands. The Hamas announcement leaves Abbas - and the "roadmap" plan - in a crisis, because he'd been counting on a cease-fire agreement with the militants as the means of delivering on his undertaking to halt terror attacks on Israelis. Without such an agreement, his only alternative would be to declare war on those organizations - an option...
...first Middle East trip of his presidency closes, George W. Bush finds himself as deeply involved and committed to the politics of the region as any Arab or Israeli leader. In promising to "ride herd" on the Israelis and Palestinians to get them moving along his "roadmap" to peace, Bush has made his administration directly responsible for overseeing the day-to-day implementation and mediation of a new peace process that has aroused little optimism in the region. And he's taking on the role alongside the epic challenge of occupying and remaking Iraq...
...while remaking Iraq requires a massive commitment of personnel and treasure on a long-term basis, the day-to-day running of the program remains firmly in the hands of Paul Bremer and the U.S. military commanders there. Moving Israelis and Palestinians along the "roadmap" map requires no comparable investment, but it could prove far more taxing on the time and energy of the administration. The gulf that remains between the Israelis' and Palestinians' understanding of what the "roadmap" will require of them and the vagueness over how their promises are to be implemented suggests the plan will require considerable...
...President Bush has appointed a mediator and a team of diplomats and intelligence officials to monitor and assist in implementation of the "roadmap." But precedent suggests that at the first sign of any disagreement - and there will certainly be many - both parties will be on the phone to the White House. Sharon, in particular, who has already held 8 meetings with President Bush since both men assumed office, has a habit of going straight to the top, preferring to bypass even Secretary of State Powell, and barely registers the presence of lesser envoys. He knows he has the President...
...doesn't speak for any of the organizations who have been waging it, and his ability to deliver their compliance remains to be proven. The Palestinians, meanwhile, have made clear they want to see a lot more than the evacuation of empty settlement outposts as a signal that the "roadmap" process can, indeed, lead to an end of the occupation. And, as of Wednesday, it may well fall to the White House to play both coach and referee on a day to day basis - a process veterans of previous efforts may inclined to compare less with "riding herd," than with...