(Toronto Star) Editorial - After a frosty Mideast summit this week in Jerusalem, Abbas was quoted as complaining that Sharon is "punishing us because there is terror, as though I am responsible...as though I carry it out." Unlike his predecessor Yasser Arafat, Abbas sees no point to prolonging a self-defeating conflict. But then there is Wafa al-Biss, who was caught on Monday trying to bomb the very hospital in Beersheba in southern Israel that had been helping her. While Abbas cannot be blamed for recruiting her, who did? She says it was the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed faction with links to the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement. This is a group that Abbas should be able to control, if he can control anyone.
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