Olmert-Bush meeting will bolster Fatah’s Abbas

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By Stan Goodenough
June 19, 2007

The chief of the Fatah terrorist organization and chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is expected to win big at today’s White House meeting between US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Both the American and Israeli will reportedly announce that they are coming out in strong support of Abbas and his newly-appointed emergency cabinet.

On Monday Olmert released to the PA hundreds of millions of dollars of “Palestinian” tax revenues frozen by Israel.

At the same time the US and EU ended the economic boycott imposed against the PA after a substantial majority of the “Palestinian” electorate voted for a Hamas-run government.

Bush and Olmert were also likely to discuss other “incentives” – or “rewards” as some newscasters called them – including the possible easing of restrictions on “Palestinian” movement in Samaria and Judea.

American political analysts said Tuesday the Hamas takeover of Gaza last week had created new realities that opened the door for Israel and Washington to implement “a new strategy and approach” to solving the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict.

The overall outcome of the White House talks would be to impress on the Palestinian Arabs that the “moderate way of Abbas” is the way to go, as opposed to the “radical way of Hamas.”

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