Ignoring the elephant in the room

Laura Rozen has an account of Abu Mazen's meeting with 'American Jewish leaders' this past week. It's pretty much stuff we've all heard (and I've blogged) earlier this week, until this little bit at the end. Aaron Miller writes in response that Abbas was "playing to his strengths and trying to cultivate the image of a wise and beneficent Palestinian leader reaching out, in contrast to the