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...Abbas, now the Palestinian Prime Minister, prepares for another meeting with a U.S. President, Arafat has entered what may prove to be his most portentous sulk yet. George W. Bush is scheduled to arrive in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, Jordan, this week for a summit with Abbas and his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon. Bush wants more than a reaffirmation of their commitment to his road map for peace in the Middle East; he is expected to demand a real timetable for progress and genuine action on the ground. Sharon last week signaled that he is willing, though some...
...Africa, where it kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children. It should have been the perfect topic for French President Jacques Chirac. As the host of this year's G-8, he invited leaders from the developing world to attend part of the summit, emphasizing his multipolar vision of the world. It was Chirac, two years ago at the violence-marred G-8 meeting in Genoa, who was among the most forceful instigators of the Global Fund to Fight aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. For months he has been saying that a key objective...
...focus of much of Wednesday's summit was the need to launch a Palestinian "war on terror," and if Hamas won't come quietly the U.S. and Israel will expect Abbas to act forcefully to, in the words of White House spokesman Scott McLellan, "dismantle the infrastructure of terror." It's far from clear that Abbas has sufficient means even if he had the political 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...
...Abbas had been holding meetings with Hamas leaders in the weeks leading up to the Aqaba summit, hoping to persuade them to sign on to a cease-fire. His 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...
...beneficiary of Abbas's troubles, of course, is Yasser Arafat. He reportedly fumed at having to watch the Aqaba summit on TV from Ramallah, the White House having done its best to use President Bush's first-ever Middle East trip to crown Abbas as the new national leader of the Palestinians and consign Arafat to the dustbin of history. Bush pulled no punches during his stay in Egypt, telling a local TV network that "it's impossible to achieve peace with Chairman Arafat." Arafat's objective, by contrast, is to prove that peace is impossible without him. Washington...