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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/opinion/19pletka.html
Diplomacy with the Devil
[New York Times] Danielle Pletka - Back in 2001, the newly minted Bush administration was scornful of Bill Clinton's efforts to build a Palestinian state with a terrorist government in place. Bush refused to allow Arafat to darken the White House door and said he would "not support the establishment of a Palestinian state until its leaders engage in a sustained fight against the terrorists." Now Hamas is in control of Gaza, Mahmoud Abbas is the powerless president of a Palestinian Authority and members of his Fatah forces tried to assassinate Israel's prime minister. The writer is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.