'WEST BANK FIRST' WON'T WORK.(Editorial)(Column)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: June 21, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert Malley and Aaron David Miller

Having embraced one illusion -- that it could help isolate and defeat Hamas -- the Bush administration is dangerously close to embracing another: Gaza is dead, long live the West Bank. This approach appears compelling. Flood the West Bank with money, boost Fatah security forces and create a meaningful negotiating process. The Palestinian people, drawn to a recovering West Bank and repelled by the nightmare of an impoverished Gaza, will rally around the more pragmatic of the Palestinians.

The theory is a few years late and ...

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