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Setting the Record Straight

A Lot to Lose

posted on 05/02/08

“So what’s to lose [from a broken cease-fire agreement with Hamas]? Yes, we would lose the peace negotiations with Abbas. We would lose the chance of reaching an agreement with a moderate Palestinian leadership, because Abbas and Fatah would be finished. But I don’t think I need to persuade anyone that those negotiations have utterly no potential or value except to placate the Bush administration.”
–Larry Derfner, “For a Cease-Fire With Hamas,” The Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2008

VS.

“[W]hat we are facing today is not just the challenge of peace, but we are facing a test of our credibility as a whole: the United States, members of the Quartet, and all members of the international community, Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, the Arab and Islamic group, as well.

It is a test that would leave its indelible impact on the future of the region and on the relationship among its peoples and the international powers that are entrusted in the peace [and] stability of our region …

We do recognize, and I presume that you share [with] me this view, that the absence of hope and overwhelming despair would feed extremism. Therefore, we have a common duty to spread genuine hope in order to achieve full transformation toward complete peace …”
–President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, Annapolis, November 27, 2007