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August 16, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=D4F1TP53NESDLQFIQMFSNAGAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/opinion/2005/08/16/dl1601.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/16/i

Abbas Should Concentrate on Making a Success of Gaza

(Telegraph-UK) Editorial - The Palestinian Authority is deeply compromised, both by political and financial corruption and by evident links with terrorism; it also seeks a strategic outcome (Israel's return to its 1949 boundaries) which is unacceptable in the eyes of the world. The PA must not imagine that the final status for the region will include a greatly shrunken Israel. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, should concentrate on making a success of Gaza rather than grandstanding about the West Bank and Jerusalem. Success in Gaza will require the active suppression of Hamas.

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