The White House ignores another elephant in the room
The White House sponsored a conference call on Friday seeking to enlist support from 'major' American Jewish organizations for its 'direct talks' between Israel and the 'Palestinians.' Here's how they treated the Hamas elephant that will be sitting in the room on September 2. White House officials addressed that topic directly Friday afternoon on a private conference call with Jewish community groups, saying that the talks would build legitimacy for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against Hamas and that a peace agreement would convince the Palestinian people to abandon Hamas and its violent methods.Abu Bluff's (Abu Mazen, 'Abbas') term in office expired on January 9, 2009. At the time, he claimed that he was entitled to remain in office for another year so that elections for parliament and Prime Minister could be held at the same time. But we're now 19 months from that point, and neither Presidential nor parliamentary elections have been held.
"The ability of the forces of moderation and the forces of peace among Palestinians to prevail will be greatly enhanced once they're able to point to an ongoing peace process and ultimately a peace treaty and I think the Palestinian people will see that for what it is," said David Hale, deputy special envoy for Middle East peace, according to a record of the call made available to The Cable.
"Abbas offers the Palestinian people the choice of negotiating your problems and challenges rather than trying to use violence or terrorism to try to achieve your goals," Hale said. "Abbas is strengthened in the eyes of the Palestinian people when he's able to show his course of peace actually produces results. So we think that by entering into direct talks, it ought to be able to strengthen his position rather than the opposite."
What that means is that Abu Bluff has no legitimacy to deal with Israel. It means he has no power to concede anything in 'negotiations' and no ability to sell a deal to his 'people.'
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:40 AM
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And Hamas will veto any accord that is reached. So Abu Bluff has no real interest in reaching one with Israel. He values his life more and even Netanyahu can't persuade him to sell it for a piece of paper not worth his signature on it.
What could go wrong indeed
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