Fatah Voices Disappointment That Obama Won't Do Their Work For Them

A memo from Fatah has been leaked to the press. Not surprisingly, after Obama has bent over backwards to ingratiate himself with the Arab world in general and the Palestinian Arabs in particular, what do the Palestinian Arabs want?

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"All hopes placed in the new US administration and President Obama have evaporated," the document said. Obama "couldn't withstand the pressure of the Zionist lobby, which led to a retreat from his previous positions on halting settlement construction and defining an agenda for the negotiations and peace."

"Our commitment to the Palestinian people remains strong," a State Department official responded, adding that American opposition to settlements remained in place: "We continue to emphasize that America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements." The Fatah memo accused the US of failing to set a clear agenda for a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

But why should the US set a clear agenda, when Abbas has already set it himself:

However, along with the circulation of the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, Fatah chairman and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared that he wouldn't resume peace talks with Israel before there was a total freeze on settlement activity, including in Jerusalem.

Abbas already has a clear agenda--the one he has consistently been pushing for from the beginning: more and more Israeli concessions.

It's just that Abbas and Fatah expected to be able to sit back and have Obama do the pushing for them.

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