To trust the US is to take a big risk
George S. Hishmeh; 1/5/08
Frankly, so far nothing has been achieved.” This was the startling yet straightforward statement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after his failure in Washington last week to have the US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice exercise some arms-twisting in the stalled Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. Abbas, who is not known to be one who would spill the beans after putting all his eggs in the American basket, was particularly disappointed in a rare press interview (with the Associated Press) that the US has not exerted more pressure on Israel to stop expanding its illegal colonies, even those that Israeli leaders had agreed to dismantle as a first step in implementing the so-called roadmap.
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