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Bush to address Mideast conflict after Abbas, Olmert meeting
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 16 - 07 - 2007


US President George W Bush plans a speech later
Monday to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and outline ways
to support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, according to dpa.
Bush was to speak at 1:15 pm (1715 GMT) at the White House, an
event that was not announced until Sunday. It follows after Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Abbas earlier in the day in
Jerusalem.
Bush has sought to bolster Abbas since he ousted Hamas from the
government after the militant group seized control of the Gaza Strip
in June. With Hamas out of the government, the United States had
announced a resumption of direct aid to the Palestinian government.
The White House hinted that Bush might be announcing additional
aid.
With the rule over the Palestinian territories divided between
Hamas in Gaza and Abbas Fatah party in the West Bank, the United
States wants to move forward with a West Bank-first approach in
renewing the peace process with Israel.
But there has been scepticism over the long-run potential of the
strategy because Hamas and other radical groups have a presence in
the West Bank and could carry out terrorist attacks to thwart any
progress toward peace, analysts say.
"On one hand, a West Bank-first strategy is a commendable effort
to make lemonade out of lemons. But it also seems to be an extension
of the mistaken belief that sufficient effort to isolate and pressure
Hamas will make Hamas go away. Hamas will not go away," Paul Pillar,
a former chief Middle East analyst on the US National Intelligence
Council, told the Washington Post.
The Post reported Monday that US intelligence has raised questions
about whether Abbas is politically strong enough to negotiate peace
and govern the West Bank effectively.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary
Robert Gates are to travel to the Middle East at the end of this
month in an effort by Bush to step up diplomacy toward resolving the
conflict.


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