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Merkel sez EU supports Hamas-Fatah reconciliation efforts
2007-02-06
The EU is always getting in the way.
ABU DHABI - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that the European Union would do what it could to help support the negotiations between the rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah. Merkel made the remarks in Abu Dhabi, where she had arrived earlier in the day as part of her tour of four Arab states. Germany currently holds the six-month rotating EU presidency.

‘We will do everything in our power to hlep make these talks be successful,’ Merkel said about the Hamas-Fatah negotiations which were set to start on Tuesday to try to end their conflict and seek ways to set up a national unity government.
'everything in our power'? Is that all?
Merkel said she was grateful to Saudi Arabia for its efforts to bring the two parties to the negotiating table, and she said the EU was in close contact with the two parties.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Hail to the Victors the definitive statement.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-02-06 21:51  

#5  Homo canem mordet, Shieldwolf.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-02-06 20:38  

#4  Actually it is "Sieg Heil", Grom; it was a typical Nazi ripoff of ancient things. The Sieg Heil and the stiff armed salute were taken from the ancient Germanic auxilaries of the Roman Empire; of course, Mussolini had ripped off the stiff armed forward salute in the 1920s for the Italian Fascists.

By the way, the meaning of the phrase is "Hail to Victory!"; sort of like the "Viva La Revolucion!" in Castro's Cuba.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2007-02-06 18:38  

#3  I support both Hamas and Fatah gathering in a big stadium for a big pow-wow that is punchuated by a MOAB.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-02-06 10:26  

#2  I support the Truce Fire ... let 'em all kill each other.
Posted by: doc   2007-02-06 08:35  

#1  Zig heil!
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-02-06 08:07  

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