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October 21, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ross19oct19,0,5627260.story

The Un-Arafat Comes Calling

(Los Angeles Times) David Makovsky and Dennis Ross - Mahmoud Abbas seeks to build a political culture of responsibility. He has repeatedly said (in both English and Arabic) that violence is counterproductive to Palestinian aspirations. While Arafat saw the misery of Palestinian refugees as a tool to be exploited for political purposes, Abbas has now given two speeches in the last month, in Arabic, declaring that it is time that Palestinians built housing for the refugees and that the Palestinian cause is not served by keeping refugees in wretched conditions.

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