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...camera bulbs had barely stopped flashing, but Mahmoud Abbas was already on the spot. After exchanging a photo-op handshake with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last week, Abbas went into his first meeting with Sharon since Abbas' election as President of the Palestinian Authority. Sitting across a long oblong table in an airy conference room, Sharon reiterated to Abbas his demand that the Palestinians take immediate steps to disarm the militants of Hamas before Israel agrees to resume peace talks. "Wait, wait, give me a break," Abbas said, according...
...prove himself." Abbas' fortunes--and prospects for peace--will ultimately hinge on whether he can persuade Sharon to make compromises of his own, like releasing long-serving prisoners who murdered Israelis. It's telling that while Israeli officials praised Abbas for sticking to the agenda at Sharm el-Sheikh--in contrast to Arafat's diversionary tactics--Abbas told a senior Fatah official that he found Sharon too rigid. "We are different personalities," he said. "I can't be a block...
...ready to force Hamas to respect the authority of his government. "He's a very patient person," says Rafik Natsha, a Palestinian lawmaker and close friend. "He swallows his anger." He may have to let it out soon. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/ Ramallah, Amany Radwan/Sharm el-Sheikh and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the scene of such disappointment four and a half years ago when talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority failed to stop the second intifada from spiraling out of control, recently played host to the unveiling of a new cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. We enthusiastically applaud the new cease-fire agreed to last Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and fervently hope that it will be strictly obeyed by both sides...
...Rashodi has plenty of company. While many Saudis soured on al-Qaeda after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...