RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused Tuesday to publicly commit to restarting suspended talks with Israel, frustrating Bush administration officials who contend that he is giving Hamas, the militant Islamist organization, a tactical victory by allowing it to hijack Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.
After a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Abbas did not say that he would never return to negotiations. He just refused to say when, and seemed to relish a new role of standing up to the United States and Israel...
You don't suppose he might have a reason for that, do you?
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever...
Go check it out. Learn the real definition of the word "idiots".
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