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...Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have scheduled this watershed conference to discuss an action plan on the “Road Map to Peace” issued two weeks ago by the U.S. along with the other members of the so-called Quartet—Russia...
...both sides now need to commit wholeheartedly to peace. While the first priority is the elimination of terrorism on the Palestinian side, Israeli leader Ariel Sharon needs to implement his own policies for peace. The continuing construction of new settlements and new settler “outposts” in the West Bank severely undermines Israel’s commitment to peace. While this construction activity is in no way the moral equivalent of suicide bomber attacks, halting any and all settlement construction immediately is imperative to show respect for the Palestinians...
...Sharon's reading of U.S. domestic politics, and his close relationship with the Bush White House, leaves him relatively comfortable in playing hard-to-get even on President Bush's own "roadmap" - or at least, in cherry picking his favorite bits and ignoring the more distasteful aspects...
...hope of stopping a relentless wave of suicide bombings inside Israel-proper. The Palestinians say they can't reconstitute their shattered security services as long as Israeli maintains a stranglehold on their turf, and argue that an Israeli withdrawal is a prerequisite for a crackdown on terrorism. But Sharon is in no mood to accept half-measures, and insists that Israel will deal only with a Palestinian Authority willing to disarm the Palestinian organizations that carry out terror attacks - Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Fatah-based Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas insists that he plans to eliminate...
...Abbas were to succeed, of course, Sharon might be in the difficult position of being forced to tip his hand on issues such as the fate of the settlements and the borders of a Palestinian state. Despite his mantra of readiness to make "painful compromises," Sharon's entire political career has been built championing the settlement movement, and nobody's expecting him to come close to offering a political deal even close to the minimum acceptable for Abbas, or any other Palestinian or Arab leader. But Sharon can rest easy that the domestic political situation in the Palestinian territories...