Set Up to Fail...

Don't you worry... Sharon in working hard to revive the Road Map!

As I mentioned earlier, The Fat Bastard has no intention of participating in good faith in a process which will end up allowing the Israelis and the palestinians live in peace and side by side each in their own State. Israel has yet to even come close to accepting the Palestinians right to a State and there are no indication that the policy of disenfrianchising the Palestinian will stop... So the bloodshed shall continue.

" If ever there were a man that Israel could do business with, it's Abbas.

But Israel, more precisely, Ariel Sharon, may not want to do much business with Abbas, except to install him as the gendardme of Gaza after Israel pulls out of there.

Sharon has shown no desire whatsoever to dismantle the settlements on the West Bank, quite the contrary. And his former chief of staff has admitted that the retreat from Gaza is simply a ploy to hold on to the West Bank and to forever stall the recognition of a Palestinian state.

While the Sharon government said it’s prepared to work with Abbas, it put the onus on him. "Will he fight against the terrorists?"€ asked Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "Will he try to stop this bloody, violent war against the state of Israel?

This is the main question," he said.

Sharon himself cast doubt. "The Palestinians are still not fighting terror,"€ he said, "and while his declarations in the framework of the election campaign were encouraging, he will be tested by the way he battles terror."€

By placing full responsibility on Abbas's shoulders, and by refusing to move forward to end the occupation on the West Bank, Sharon is setting Abbas up for failure."

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