This alliance of Middle East moderates comes with a price that neither Israel nor the Bush administration seems ready to pay. The Israeli-American strategy of driving a wedge between Gaza and the West Bank while shunning negotiations on a peace settlement that could give Abbas the ultimate tool to undermine Hamas is a policy at war with itself.
中东地区温和派的联合所带来的代价可能是以色列和布什政府都还没有准备好要付出的。以色列和美国分裂加沙和西岸同时回避在能够使阿巴斯最终削弱哈马斯的和平协议上的谈判的策略本身就是一场战争。