US has an ostrich-like view of Abu Mazen

Khaled Abu Toameh writes that the United States has an ostrich-like view of  'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen (Hat Tip: Bad Blue). This is from the first link.

Abu Zayda and other Palestinian officials say that Abbas's autocratic
regime reminds them of the days when Yasser Arafat ran the Palestinian
Authority as his private fiefdom.

No one dreamed that we would