{"id":934,"date":"2005-06-17T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=934"},"modified":"2005-06-17T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T17:16:25","slug":"who-wants-a-third-intifada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Who wants a third intifada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20050617\/pl_nm\/mideast_rice_dc\">By Matt Spetalnick<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel wants to use Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s weekend visit to try to stem the growing political and diplomatic clout of its arch foe, the Palestinian militant group Hamas, political sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli leaders are increasingly worried about the Islamist faction&#8217;s successes in local Palestinian elections, its recent contacts with European Union diplomats and the threat of renewed militant attacks that could disrupt Israel&#8217;s Gaza withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may even ask Rice to pressure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to bar Hamas from running in coming parliamentary elections, a Sharon confidant said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Israel truly wanted to &#8220;stem the growing political and diplomatic clout of its arch foe&#8221; it would not manufacture reasons they should have it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/objects\/pages\/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=588637\">Inciting<\/a> tension <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article3926.shtml\">as always<\/a>, diverting attention from Israel&#8217;s illegal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com\/\">destructions<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article3930.shtml\">constructions<\/a>, all of it enthusiastically financed by the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lost Palestinians<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/18035\">By Hussein Agha, Robert Malley<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is turmoil on the Palestinian political scene and out of it has come hyperbole and misconception. Fatah&#8217;s decline has variously been belittled as the result of a temporary conflict between generations or it has been overstated as the prelude to Hamas&#8217;s inexorable triumph. Hamas&#8217;s ascent has led to exaggerated fears of an Islamist takeover coupled with inflated concerns that it will thwart the Palestinian president&#8217;s plans. In turn, Abu Mazen&#8217;s decision to bring Hamas into Palestinian institutions has been criticized as naive, dangerous, or both. <\/p>\n<p>There is indeed a problem with Palestinian politics today. But the core of the problem concerns the identity of the two principal Palestinian organizations, not a conflict between young reformers and old diehards. And it is best dealt with by bringing more forces into the political mainstream, not by excluding them in the name of a putative Islamist threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Israel wants no part of peace.  Does the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/objects\/pages\/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=587787\">United<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/objects\/pages\/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=588863\">States<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Spetalnick Israel wants to use Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s weekend visit to try to stem the growing political and diplomatic clout of its arch foe, the Palestinian militant group Hamas, political sources said. 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