Given the regional dangers that are on the horizon, any political arrangement with the Palestinians in the future must have a much stronger security component than what Olmert or Barak may have considered in the past.
By Dore Gold
Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech on Jan. 4, on the anniversary of the founding of Fatah, that may have marked a turning point in the relations between the Palestinian Authority president and the State of Israel. Using extremist rhetoric that he has not adopted before, Abbas spoke about the need of the Palestinians “to renew an oath to the heroic martyrs and to walk in their path.”










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