Thanks for that Wade – I’m going to look into that – my hunch is that Bush’s instincts might not have cohered perfected with Abrams’ in this instance – Lord knows everybody in that Admin was not always on the same page…- My understanding is that Hamas proposed a coalition gov with Abbas as Pres? But that Israel and the U.S. told ABbas no can go. Not sure that was the wisest move – though one can understand reluctance to deal with Islamist brutes. Still – we’ve been betting the house on some tribal/Islamist horrors in Iraq. And that was right thing to do there…Hmmm.