Mr. Abbas said in the interview that the governing Palestinian Authority was also using the cease-fire to rebuild.
When asked about the Israeli contention that Hamas was taking advantage of the cease-fire to rebuild, he said the Palestinian Authority was also using it to rebuild.
Mr. Gissin said that if Mr. Abbas was planning to use two to three weeks of a cease-fire to rebuild security forces in preparation for taking on Hamas, that would advance the peace effort.
They also argue that the programs induce risky behavior, allowing Californians whose homes are destroyed by fire, for instance, to rebuild on fire-prone hillsides.
Mayor-elect Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday chose Nicholas Scoppetta, who won praise for overhauling New York City's child welfare system the last six years, to be the city's next fire commissioner and rebuild a department that lost 343 firefighters in the attack on the World Trade Center.
The communities said they acted on their own after a $52 million Army Corps project to rebuild Fire Island beaches fell through three years ago.
A1 Mayor-elect Bloomberg chose Nicholas Scoppetta, who won praise for overhauling New York City's child welfare system, to be the city's next fire commissioner and rebuild a department that lost 343 firefighters at the World Trade Center.
A post office and job centre have been relocated, while moves are afoot to rebuild fire-hit Aldi and Carpetright stores.
Fire Island and South Shore homeowners generally favor extensive dredging of offshore sand to rebuild the Fire Island dunes, while environmental groups generally prefer to let nature take its course.
The Amazon rainforest is another matter, normally too wet to catch fire, and slow to rebuild if it does.
