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2007-06-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Ex-Abbas adviser calls for new Hamas-Fatah gov't

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Posted by Fred 2007-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 "If Hamas feels that they have no stake in this peace process, they will and they can be major spoilers. All it takes is a few terror attacks in Israel to derail the peace process,"

How can you give someone a stake in something they consider treason to a sacred cause? And there have been scores of terror attacks in Israel and yet for years "the peace process" has resolutely marched on to nowhere. Is production of such nonsense how one becomes a senior fellow at a Washington think tank? Seems so.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2007-06-29 00:55|| 2007-06-29 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 New America Foundation:

Board of Directors

Eric A. Benhamou Chairman, 3Com Corporation & Palm Inc.; Chairman and CEO, Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC

James Fallows Board Chairman, New America Foundation; National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly

Roger W. Ferguson Jr. Chairman, Swiss Re America Holding Corporation

Francis Fukuyama Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University

Ted Halstead President & CEO, New America Foundation

Noosheen Hashemi President, HAND Foundation

Laurene Powell Jobs President of the Board, College Track

Kati Marton Author & Journalist

Walter Russell Mead Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Lenny Mendonca Chairmain, McKinsey Global Institute

Steven Rattner Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group, LLC

Eric Schmidt Chairman & CEO, Google, Inc.

Bernard L. Schwartz Retired Chairman & CEO, Loral Space & Communications Ltd.

Anne-Marie Slaughter Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Laura D'Andrea Tyson Professor, Business Administration & Economics, Haas School of Business, UCLA Berkeley

Christine Todd Whitman President, Whitman Strategy Group

Daniel Yergin Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Fareed Zakaria Editor, Newsweek International

Meet the New America. Same as the old America.

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-29 10:25|| 2007-06-29 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 As for who you talk to right now, absolutely, completely, without any reservation, it has to be Abu Mazen [Abbas]," said Omari. "If you talk to Hamas right now it will be rewarding them in an unprecedented way for what happened in Gaza."

I agree.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2007-06-29 12:46|| 2007-06-29 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't follow his logic. If the Manson family took over a camp site in Death Valley, I don't think the act would necessitate negotiations. The is absolutely nothing in Gaza that any rational person would want. We just have to make sure that nobody important diplomats crash lands into Gaza. If somebody does, then it's time to ask Kurt Russell to dig his eyepatch out of his sock drawer.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-06-29 21:11|| 2007-06-29 21:11|| Front Page Top

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