Posted by
colorado springs citizen on Saturday, May 24, 2008 6:26:57 AM
Under the UN resolution on the Middle East, a Palestinian state should
be established not only on the West Bank but also in the Gaza Strip.
And, like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, Abbas insists that East
Jerusalem should be proclaimed its capital.
assume that under certain conditions, Israel would be ready to make
certain concessions to Abbas, and return East Jerusalem to the Arabs
(the then Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, spoke about this in 2000). But I
cannot imagine how Gaza could be returned to the control of Fatah. It
is Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, that is running the whole
show there, and Abbas will never be able to seize power from them,
considering that this movement legitimately defeated the Fatah at the
ballot box before it resorted to an armed rebellion.