The Palestinian president has said he will resign, leaving no apparent heir for non-Hamas Palestinians. The New York Times article to which I just linked says that Abbas feels betrayed by those who ostensibly supported the peace process. With the aid of quick Google search, it’s pretty easy to see that Abbas betrayed himself. From a piece by Jackson Diehl, the deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post:
In our meeting Wednesday, Abbas acknowledged that Olmert had shown him a map proposing a Palestinian state on 97 percent of the West Bank — though he complained that the Israeli leader refused to give him a copy of the plan. He confirmed that Olmert “accepted the principle” of the “right of return” of Palestinian refugees — something no previous Israeli prime minister had done — and offered to resettle thousands in Israel. In all, Olmert’s peace offer was more generous to the Palestinians than either that of Bush or Bill Clinton; it’s almost impossible to imagine Obama, or any Israeli government, going further.
Abbas turned it down. “The gaps were wide,” he said.
