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Hamas & Fatah Reconciliation Exposes Zionism's Rejection of Peace

Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation | 27.03.2008 01:38 | Palestine | World

Israel and Bush/PNAC's Divide & Rule tactics in Palestine are falling apart, and Israel's rejection of peace talks with a reconciled Unity Government only highlights the fact that they will only partake in talks they feel they can control, which won't force them to compromise at all, or in other words, live up to their legal and moral obligations.

Hamas and Fatah Agree to Revive Direct Talks

By Mohamed Sudam - Reuters

SANAA, Yemen -- Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a Yemeni-sponsored deal Sunday promising to revive direct talks after months of hostilities, but differences remained over the future of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The two factions reconvened in Sanaa earlier in the day after the talks, launched last week by Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, came close to collapse several times.

"We, the representatives of Fatah and Hamas, agree to the Yemeni initiative as a framework to resume dialogue between the two movements to return the Palestinian situation to what it was before the Gaza incidents," a declaration issued after the meeting said.

(By the 'Gaza incidents', they mean the failed Coup attempt sponsored by the US and Israel, which was designed as a way to 'divide & rule'.)

While analysts believe the decision to talk is an important step forward, there are still outstanding issues that could scupper negotiations, and they caution that previous agreements have collapsed.

The Sanaa Declaration, signed by top Hamas negotiator Moussa Abu Marzouk and senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed, also affirmed the "unity of the Palestinian people, territory and authority".

The Yemeni initiative calls for the situation in Gaza to return to the way it was before Hamas seized the area in June after routing Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

(Actually, loyal to the Extremists in the US and Israel, like Eliot Abrams, who sponsored their Coup attempt. They are traitors to all Palestinians.)

The violence left Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West Bank and entrenched divisions as the two movements vied for power and influence among the 4 million Palestinians in the two areas separated by Israel.

Fatah had said it would agree to direct reconciliation talks with Hamas only if the Islamist group first agreed to relinquish its hold on Gaza, home to 1.5 million Palestinians.

A Hamas official said on Saturday the group asked that the same condition should apply to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority has dismissed a Hamas-led unity government and arrested some Hamas supporters.

Differences over that key clause remained, but Ahmed said he was looking forward to Yemen setting a date for new talks to begin that would hammer out the details of implementation.

"We look towards implementing the Yemeni initiative and fostering Palestinian national unity," he told reporters.

A senior Hamas official said talks would begin on April 5 with the first round being held in the Palestinian territories, but the Palestinian ambassador to Yemen, Ahmad Deek, said Yemen would issue invitations for talks there early next month.

Saleh had been pressing the Palestinians to begin their dialogue in April and said Yemen would ask the Arab Summit in Damascus on March 29-30 to endorse the initiative as a joint Arab plan.

But previous Arab-sponsored efforts to reconcile the Palestinians, including a Saudi-mediated deal reached in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 2007, have fallen by the wayside.

The Yemeni plan, which calls for a return to the framework accords laid in Mecca, also envisages new Palestinian elections, the creation of another unity government and the reform of security forces along national rather than factional lines.

 http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2008/03/24/251.html

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Israel will shun Abbas over Hamas

Published: 03/24/2008

Israel threatened to cut off peace talks with Mahmoud Abbas if his Fatah faction joins forces with Hamas.

(So what? These are a charade anyway.)

Jerusalem officials said Monday that should Fatah bury the hatchet with Hamas and invite the Islamists into a new Palestinian Authority coalition government, Israel will suspend U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations.

The warning came as Fatah and Hamas, which have been at loggerheads since the latter seized control of the Gaza Strip last June, held reconciliation talks in Yemen.

But the Israeli assessment is that the Palestinian factions are unlikely to reach a binding pact given Hamas' refusal of Fatah's core demand that it give up Gaza and submit to Abbas' authority.

 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107682.html tlm77 tlmzi

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