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Gaza Pitfalls in Every Path


[New York Times] Helene Cooper - President Bush's peace plan for the Middle East has been to prop up the more moderate Mahmoud Abbas. But as long as Hamas controls Gaza, it can subvert negotiations between Israelis and moderate Palestinians whenever it sees fit. "You cannot make peace with half of the Palestinian polity and go to war with the other half," said former American diplomat Aaron David Miller. Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, said encouraging Israel to negotiate a cease-fire with Hamas would further undermine Abbas and make it look like Hamas is the entity with which Israel and the West should be negotiating.
2008-03-03 01:00:00
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