[The NY Sun is a neocon daily broadsheet in New York, a very odd duck, with enough money behind it, even after Conrad Black's fall, to hand out most of its copies for free. It's strategy seems to be to have a magazine-quality arts and sports pages (interestingly including among the writers some of the Village Voice's best refugees) in order to legitimate and get people to look at their tunnel vision front pages.]
http://www.nysun.com/article/43346
November 13, 2006 New York Sun Page 1
Olmert To Meet Bush as Pressure Builds on Israel By Eli Lake, Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON -- Prime Minister Olmert, meeting here today with a president changing course in the Middle East after his party lost control of Congress, will face renewed pressure to negotiate with the Palestinian Arabs. He could also clash with President Bush about Iran.
The State Department has been making preliminary plans since August for a regional peace conference in the style of the 1991 Madrid negotiations organized by President George H.W. Bush. Until this weekend, however, the planning was largely moot, because President Abbas was unable to form a unity government with Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Palestinian Authority legislature.
All of that changed yesterday with the announcement of a new government for the Palestinian Authority and the tentative proposal that a biologist from Gaza, Mohammed Shbeir, will take over the prime minister position from the Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniya. Mr. Haniya yesterday said he would only resign if American sanctions were lifted on Arab banks that deal with a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Adding momentum to peace negotiations, foreign ministers meeting in Cairo at an emergency Arab League summit announced their plans for a meeting to reach a final resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
These developments bolster what the State Department has called its "Sunni strategy," a plan to entice Arab allies to cooperate more fully with financial sanctions on Iran and stabilize Iraq in exchange for renewed American focus on a negotiated settlement between the Israelis and Palestinians.
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