An expanded Palestinian government and PLO — including Hamas — must rule Gaza and the West Bank and negotiate to establish a Palestinian state.
The Americans , the Israelis and the Palestinians are in a bind. No one knows who will govern Gaza after a cease-fire, when it comes. The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah is not willing to enter Gaza on the back of Israeli tanks and without the agreement of Palestinian fighters there. No one else will either. Jordan ’s prime minister has categorically denied that his country would play such a role, and the same will hold for almost any other Arab or international force.
When former Secretary of State James Baker couldn’t get Israel’s hard-line Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to accept the participation of Jerusalem Palestinians in the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, the U.S. agreed to the creation of a steering committee headed by those very Palestinians. The steering committee chose the delegation that did participate in the talks. On the eve of Sept.
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