Then, in a pointed statement that senior Administration officials prepared late Tuesday, Secretary Powell added, "If you declare war against the Palestinians thinking that you can solve the problem by seeing how many Palestinians can be killed, I don't know that that leads us anywhere".
Perhaps the Qatari government hopes to moderate Hamas' positions on broader Palestinian or Israeli-Palestinian relations, thinking that the time to try foreign policy carrots, as well as sticks, may have arrived.
The violence has been especially shocking to Israelis who believed that Palestinians' thinking had evolved as much as their own.
Isaac Herzog so inspired us because he repudiated the core tenets of Bibi's Israel: that liberals will, either in negotiating with Palestinians or thinking rationally about Iran or embracing the enfranchisement of Israeli Arabs, contradict the mission of the Jewish State.
She says recent funding stories are inspiring Palestinian entrepreneurs and "Palestinians abroad are thinking of coming home".
She praises it for offering a transit point for Soviet Jews when other countries held back for fear of attracting the unwelcome attention of pro-Palestinian groups.In thinking about all this, Austria's narrow room for manoeuvre internationally ought not to be forgotten.
Samer Shehata, a professor of Arab politics at Georgetown University, said American policy makers would be naïve to think that the positions held by Mr. Morsi and the Brotherhood — including criticisms of the United States and strong support for the Palestinians — represented fringe thinking.
Mr Blair's focus, at any rate to begin with, will be on building Palestinian institutions and seeking to mend the Palestinian economy but not yet to start thinking about Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or luring Hamas into talks.
He is no friend of Israel — "I'm an Arab, how can I have warm feelings for such a place?" he said — but he believes that hatred of Israel, and, to a lesser extent, hatred of America, is fomented by the Mubarak regime as a diversion; as long as Egyptians think about Palestinians, they aren't thinking about themselves.
