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...President Bush didn't have enough problems in the Middle East, he now has to contend with the failure of his attempt to remake the Palestinian leadership in order to implement his peace roadmap. Tuesday's suicide bombing near Tel Aviv, coupled with a deadly attack in Jerusalem left a total of 13 dead with dozens more wounded. This combined with continued Israeli attacks on Hamas underscores the danger of a conflict spinning violently out of control...
...regional crisis that such a move could trigger. Instead, Washington would simply ignore the elected leader of the Palestinians and deal only with the prime minister designated by the U.S. as Arafat's successor. And, so the theory went, by showing ordinary Palestinians that Abbas's pursuit of the roadmap brought progress towards statehood and an end to the occupation, Arafat would be cast into the dustbin of history by his own people...
...events didn't turn out quite that way; Abbas's departure underscores Arafat's continued centrality to the political process in the Palestinian Authority. If anything, the failure of the roadmap process to significantly alter the desperate plight of Palestinians living on the West Bank and Gaza actually restored and strengthened Arafat's standing among his own people...
...from the Israelis by way of easing the occupation. Arafat blessed the cease-fire Abbas had negotiated with Palestinian radical groups, but held tightly to the reins of the PA security services when the prime minister sought to consolidate them under his control in line with the "roadmap." When the struggle for control came to a head, Abbas was branded a collaborator by Arafat's grassroots supporters - a charge that made his position untenable given Israel's continued war against Palestinian militants and the absence he felt of vital support from the U.S. And so Abbas simply walked away from...
...Five days later, the new Prime Minister gave an encouraging clue by delivering a speech with a reformist message. He announced a seven point "roadmap for democracy" that envisaged a new constitution and the first national elections since 1990, when the junta overturned a landslide by the National League for Democracy and put the party's leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for six years. Khin Nyunt was vague, however, on such crucial details as when the elections would be held...