Word: statehooder
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...roadmap was initiated more than a year ago by diplomats engaged in the region as a response to the failure of previous cease-fire initiatives. It sought to strengthen the chances for a truce by tying a cease-fire directly to a quick and sure march towards Palestinian statehood along the lines envisaged in the final talks between the Palestinian Authority and the government of Ehud Barak in their final talks at Taba in January 2001. The U.S. participated in the "quartet" discussions that initially shaped the plan, but Washington moved closer to Sharon's efforts to seek a military...
...Palestinians nothing but misery and international isolation. The new prime minister wants the violence stopped and negotiations resumed, believing that even if Sharon is unwilling to grant the Palestinians' bottom-line demands, stopping terror will swing international (and even Israeli) public opinion back behind the Palestinian pursuit of statehood in the 1967 territories...
...reason Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas will meet with President Bush is the same reason the two are suddenly talking about implementing a sequence of steps designed to achieve an as-yet undefined Palestinian statehood within two years: both men know better than to cross the White House. Still, President Bush's summit with the prime ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, scheduled to be held next week in Jordan, is a calculated gamble. It is designed to revive of a peace process, and realize the pledge made by President Bush to Arab and European allies ahead...
...Neither Abbas, nor any other Palestinian leader, could settle for statehood only in the areas currently under Palestinian control as the endpoint of the political process. But less important than Sharon's best-case offer is the question of what the Bush administration imagines to be a fair and viable settlement. On this score, as on many other Middle Eastern matters, the administration is reportedly sharply divided. While the State Department may have been working on the assumption that the Taba offers the basis of territorial compromise, President Bush's Middle East policy coordinator Elliot Abrams has made no secret...
...Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas says Israel's security tactics make it impossible for him to disarm terror groups, and that no Palestinian leader can wage a campaign against militants unless Palestinians can be shown that such a crackdown would lead inexorably to statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. All of this, of course, is familiar ground. The Bush administration had hoped that twisting Yasser Arafat's arm to appoint Abbas would somehow break the logjam, but when Sharon met with Abbas and senior PA figures last Saturday, the change of faces...