Hamas leaders have been encouraged by recent calls by European officials for Israel to reopen the passages to Gaza and ease the conditions of the 1.5 million residents of the strip.
The aide seemed to promise actions to ease the conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza once the new prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, was installed, the official said.
Israel would be expected to pull troops from Palestinian areas, ease the conditions of Palestinians living in those areas and end "settlement activity" in what the plan calls occupied territory.
In the ensuing row, Israel bowed to pressure to ease the conditions of its then three-year blockade of Gaza, aimed at weakening Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the tiny coastal strip.
German officials are especially wary that the central bank's record on monetary policy could be compromised if, for example, it were to adjust interest rates to ease the conditions for banks falling under its supervision.
It has resisted efforts to ease the conditions attached to the bail-outs of Greece and Ireland, and is insisting that Portugal, which started negotiations on a bail-out this week, also gets licked into shape.
Even the central Europeans, though angry about their budgeted assistance being cut, might sign up, partly because Mr Blair proposes to ease the conditions they have to meet to get their money, and partly because they fear that further delay could cost them even more.
To some extent, the expression of inbreeding depression by selfed individuals can ease the conditions for their maintenance, but selfing by hermaphrodites ultimately always makes coexistence more difficult (Ishida and Hiura, 2002; Pannell, 2002; Eppley and Pannell, 2007).
