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...putative negotiating partner is a radical terrorist organization whose very founding documents are fundamentally opposed to Israel’s existence. It is unclear how one would negotiate a peace with an organization that exists on the basis of permanent opposition to peace. Similarly, Mahmoud Abbas??universally considered a moderate—recently gave his strong approval for the naming of a square after a suicide bomber terrorist responsible for the deaths of 37 innocent Israeli civilians; negotiation with partners that glorify terror also seems a fruitless pursuit...
...political process is essential to demilitarizing it, but the Israeli government has claimed that Hamas should not be allowed to participate until it acknowledges Israel’s right to exist.According to experts and recent news reports, Hamas is poised to make a strong showing in the polls against Abbas??s dominant Fatah faction, which Arafat founded in the 1950s. The militant group has performed well in local elections over the past year, taking control of many important municipal councils. A poll released last Friday by an independent Palestinian firm, the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, put Fatah...
...celebrate Maskhadov’s death as a validation of his Chechen policies, as justification of the indiscriminate use of force as a solution to difficult problems. Putin’s celebration would be the rough equivalent of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon putting a hellfire missile through Mahmoud Abbas??s window, celebrating the defeat of Palestinian terrorism, and ignoring Hamas. While the moderate, democratically elected Chechen leader Maskhadov lies dead, other, more radical Islamic fundamentalist fighters are still at large. In particular, Shamil Basayef, the mastermind of the horrific Moscow theater and Beslan hostage takings, runs free...
...Abbas?? actions are reassuring to an Israeli society that has felt so abandoned in the quest to find a genuine partner for peace on the Palestinian side,” said Sunny M. Yudokoff ’06, President of the Harvard Students for Israel...
...significant achievement to date. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rightly noted that the signing of the cease-fire is the most promising moment for progress between Palestinians and Israelis in recent years.” The “confidence building” steps taken by both sides following Abbas?? November election seem to have created a degree of trust between the two sides that was unimaginable just six months...