based al-Watan said the previous US administrations used to neglect the Palestinians issue in addition to their blind alignment with Israel. That was a gross mistake and we hope the new US administration will not commit the same mistake, said the daily. The paper expressed a cautious optimism about appointing envoys to the middle east, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the first week of the assumption of power by Barrack Obama, and said that development will enable Obama to seriously tackle the problems of these regions. Appointment of George Mitchell as a middle east envoy will make the people in the region optimistic and believe that the new US administration has learned lessons from the past. The paper drew the attention of the Palestinians that disunity among them is more dangerous that the Israel aggression, and added that at the same time Israel should be aware of the fact that resorting to force will not realize the security it is running after.
