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...course, Israel has not negotiated with Hamas - that's a prospect equally abhorrent to both parties. Israel's primary negotiating partner has been the Bush Administration. The PA, in the person of prime minister Mahmoud Abbas and his security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, has negotiated on the one hand with the U.S. and Israel, and on the other hand with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and the smaller political-military organizations of the Palestinian Left. The formal agreements may be between Israel and Abbas, but Abbas has little independent political authority and has, instead, operated as an intermediary between the Israelis...
...help from the head of Egyptian intelligence, Omar Suleiman, who dispatched assistants to the Gaza Strip to push the terrorist group into talks on a cease-fire with Israel. But those talks are dragging on, and Abbas continues to have his own problems. Last week his security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, met with Abbas' rival Yasser Arafat, a senior Palestinian official tells TIME, and assured him that "I am loyal to you. I am willing to implement your orders." Dahlan seems to be playing both sides of the Abbas-Arafat feud to protect his interests. It's another sign that Abbas...
...Amos Gilad, Israel's military chief in the occupied territories who has been negotiating security arrangements with Dahlan, has called the truce with Hamas "a threat to peace," because it leaves their terror capability intact and gives them time and space to regroup. Israel will reportedly give Abbas and Dahlan up to six weeks, following the resumption of security control, to launch a full-blown crackdown designed to disarm and dismantle the terror wings of Hamas and other groups. But current indications are that this is unlikely to happen, which could leave the U.S. micromanaging an increasingly messy process. Already...
...fiction of Arafat's irrelevance may soon be dispensed with - even Dahlan has signaled the aging leader that his loyalty remains with Arafat - but even with the support of the PA leader it's far from clear that Abbas can deliver a durable cease-fire. That the hudna agreement was reached through extensive consultation with Hamas, Jihad and Fatah militants currently held in Israeli prisons - the Fatah signatory is reportedly Marwan Barghouti, the high-profile West Bank Fatah leader currently on trial in Tel Aviv for terrorism - is testimony to the limits of Abbas's ability to be much more...
...senior Fatah officials, he refused to speak to anyone--even his bodyguards--for two days. Once he did start talking, Arafat made sure to bad-mouth both Abbas, who was confirmed in office by the elected Palestinian Legislative Council on April 29, and his chosen security chief, Mohammed Dahlan. Confined by Israeli troops to his headquarters in Ramallah, Arafat also let his money do the talking; senior Fatah and Palestinian Authority officials say he has doled out cash to buy the loyalty of many of the Fatah people who supported Abbas. Last week special-forces head Nafa went to Arafat...