But as Mr. Obama made clear on Thursday, the Arab states who have spent years trumpeting the Palestinian cause need finally to match their rhetoric with action.
The cause need not even be noble, since a hopeless situation and senseless violence can actually fortify a work of fiction.
When the Arab League meets on Friday, Arab states — especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — that have long espoused the Palestinian cause need to encourage Mr. Abbas to accept any reasonable American offer and resume negotiations.
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In particular, an arrow from variable X to variable Y represents a causal influence of X on Y that is not mediated by any other variable in the set V. In this case, X is said to be a direct cause of Y relative to the variable set V. A direct cause need not be a positive cause, in the sense defined in Section 2.6 above; indeed, this notion is not even well-defined for non-binary variables.
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