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...camera bulbs had barely stopped flashing, but Mahmoud Abbas was already on the spot. After exchanging a photo-op handshake with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last week, Abbas went into his first meeting with Sharon since Abbas' election as President of the Palestinian Authority. Sitting across a long oblong table in an airy conference room, Sharon reiterated to Abbas his demand that the Palestinians take immediate steps to disarm the militants of Hamas before Israel agrees to resume peace talks. "Wait, wait, give me a break," Abbas said, according...
...week says the new Secretary of State "left there very convinced that [Abbas] was serious. He has a very clear understanding of what he's up against. He has a narrow window to prove himself." Abbas' fortunes--and prospects for peace--will ultimately hinge on whether he can persuade Sharon to make compromises of his own, like releasing long-serving prisoners who murdered Israelis. It's telling that while Israeli officials praised Abbas for sticking to the agenda at Sharm el-Sheikh--in contrast to Arafat's diversionary tactics--Abbas told a senior Fatah official that he found Sharon...
...issued a declaration in favor of a two-state solution, a break from P.L.O. doctrine, which called for the eradication of the Jewish state. Abbas' ties with Israeli officials made him a key Palestinian architect of the secret negotiations that produced the Oslo peace accord in 1993. Even Sharon, who denounced that deal, saw in Abbas a man he could do business with. Seven years ago, Sharon, who was then Infrastructure Minister, invited Abbas to Sycamores Farm, his ranch in the Negev desert. Abbas was the first P.L.O. official Sharon ever...
...Sharon Epperson is CNBC's personal-finance correspondent
...wake of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remarked, “The sad and terrible conclusion is that no once cared that Jews were being killed. At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.” After a half-millennium during which the world has created, exacerbated and ignored the global plight of black people, it is time for us to draw a similar lesson. During our most terrible tests—Rwanda...