The hudna can maybe go to hell

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The president treats even his own road map as if
it were chewing gum that got stuck on the sole
of his shoe. Up to now Bush has not succeeded
in giving Abbas any commodity he can sell to
the Palestinian public - not evacuation of
outposts, not a freeze on settlements, not an
Israeli army withdrawal to the positions of
September 2000, not the release of prisoners,
and not free passage between cities in the West
Bank.

The only candy thrown to Abbas has been the
invitation to visit Washington.

Israel is ready to
release prisoners, provided they no longer have
an organization to which they can return.

The ideology that underlies terrorism has to be
dismantled, in order to remove its
organizational products. The problem is that to
accomplish this it is essential to present a
political alternative and to implement it, so
that even fanatic groups will be hard put to
find public justification for their actions...

The truth is that Israel is
not really conducting negotiations with the
Palestinians but with Washington.

Goodwill gestures to Abbas, strengthening his
status as prime minister, helping him confront
Arafat and rejectionist organizations, don't
really interest Israel. The hudna apparently
can go to hell...
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