Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Disappointment at Sharm al-Sheikh...

Marc Lynch at FP, here
"... Her address to the conference did speak eloquently about the need for a Palestinian state and American commitment to achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace. But her remarks suggest that rather than seize on the possibility of Palestinian reconciliation, Clinton prefers to double-down on the shopworn "West Bank first, Fatah only" policy which has been conspiciously failing for the last two years....
Abd al-Bari Atwan, editor of the leading "resistance camp" newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, suggests that yesterday's comments by Mahmoud Abbas suggest that he is being emboldened by Clinton's approach to already move away from the lines of the Cairo accord"

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