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| Palestinians in Gaza butt-hurt about being left out of peace talks. |
| 2014-02-18 |
| [LA Times] GAZA CITY — Like many Palestinians, Marwan Hissi has closely followed reports of peace negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. An unemployed father of five living in a refugee community in the Gaza Strip, Hissi says he has a question for American negotiators leading the talks: "Where's Hamas?" The Islamic militant movement, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, has been excluded from the process as U.S. officials work out a preliminary agreement on key issues in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel, the United States and the European Union refuse to engage with Hamas, which does not recognize Israel's right to exist and which they consider a terrorist group. While all eyes are trained on Netanyahu and Abbas as U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry prepares to present a deal, the issue of Hamas, which could make or break the implementation of any agreement, looms uncomfortably in the background. Hamas has denounced the negotiations, saying Abbas, whose Fatah party controls the West Bank, does not have authority to bargain on behalf of all Palestinians. Sorry Marwan Hissi, after several millennia, we still have no solution. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 "Where's Hamas?" left out "the" |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-02-18 16:00 |
| #1 as an unemployed father of five, why aren't you asking Hamas why there's no work? Why aren't you questioning the fact you brought five mouths in the world with nothing to feed them? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-02-18 15:32 |