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...will to go to war with Hamas. His security services remain weak and dispersed, and may be weaker on the ground than the militant groups in different parts of the West Bank and particularly Gaza. More importantly, in the absence of a consensus in Palestinian society behind pursuing the "roadmap" route, Abbas may struggle to persuade his gendarmes to follow orders to act against fellow Palestinians. President Bush may believe that by cracking down on the militants, Abbas "is serving the deepest hopes of his people." But right now, the Palestinians themselves don't appear to be convinced...
...Mahmoud Abbas is in a very lonely place just days after having been rolled out onto the international stage as the new hope of the Palestinians. The barrage of criticism has come not only from those with a vested interest in seeing his pursuit of the "roadmap" fail - the militant groups waging the armed intifadah, and Arafat - but also on the streets. Among those who bothered to pay attention to the meeting in Aqaba, there was widespread anger at the perception that Abbas had said many things the Israelis and Americans wanted to hear, but had avoided articulating Palestinian grievances...
...plan had been to buy back weapons from militants and integrate some of them into the Palestinian security services. While the Israelis were willing to indulge Abu Abbas's cease-fire efforts, they also made clear that simply restraining militants from launching terror attacks was not enough. Implementing the "roadmap" would require that groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's own Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade be dissolved, disarmed and their leaders detained. While Hamas may have been open to discussing some form of temporary truce, at least to the extent that this was necessary to avoid being...
...corrupt, and the impetus for his appointment is seen as coming primarily from the U.S. and Israel. His weakness relative to Arafat within the PA was demonstrated in the showdown over his cabinet, in which he was forced to concede to many of Arafat's demands. Now, with the "roadmap" process having been tied directly to his ouster, Arafat has little incentive to help his prime minister deliver, and plenty of reason to do what he can to make sure Abbas fails. Moreover, having no role in delivering on the "roadmap," Arafat is free to reinforce the hostility...
...crackdown. Abbas may have previously argued that he is unable to act against Hamas and other militant groups until the Israelis have loosened their grip. But now Washington is setting the agenda, sending a team of 12 monitors to the region this weekend to oversee implementation of the "roadmap." And the Bush administration is expecting results from Abbas, and quickly. That may soon leave the new, and somewhat lonely Palestinian prime minister facing the unhappy choice of either launching a Palestinian civil war he may not win, or disappointing President Bush and sending the "roadmap" into the swelling archive...