The Boston Globe, May 26th, 2005
WHEN PRESIDENT Bush receives Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today in the White House, he will have an opportunity to send signals of support not only for the pragmatic Palestinian leader and his renunciation of violence, but also for the advent of democracy in the Middle East and for Israel's long-term security. Abbas arrives in Washington at a moment when he and the realist current he represents are beleaguered on all sides. The Islamist movement Hamas, though largely observing the cease-fire Abbas has brought about, continues to threaten a resumption of violence if a dispute w...
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