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| Egypt To Host Post-Gaza War Talks This Week | |
| 2014-09-22 | |
[IsraelTimes] Egypt will host a brief round of indirect talks this week between Israelis and Paleostinians on a sustained Gazoo ceasefire deal, as well as negotiations between Paleostinian rivals Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Fatah on who should run the territory, a Paleostinian official said Sunday.
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . Israeli government front man Mark Regev declined to comment. Israel and Gazoo's ruling Hamas fought a 50-day war that ended in late August. Under the deal that ended the fighting, Israel and Hamas were to return to Cairo within a month to hold indirect negotiations on a broader deal for Gazoo. The Islamist group Hamas demands that Israel and Egypt lift their blockade of Gazoo, which was imposed after Hamas seized the territory from longtime rival Abbas in 2007. Israel has said it can only end the closure if Hamas disarms, a demand the group has rejected. Neither side appears eager to resume fighting, but they could be dragged into another war if no solution is found. Hamas has used sporadic rocket fire at Israel as a means of political pressure, but Israeli leaders have said they would not tolerate any attacks from Gazoo. Al-Ahmad said the indirect talks between the Israeli and Paleostinian delegations would be brief and would continue after the Jewish High Holidays, a 10-day period that begins Wednesday evening. Israel and Egypt consider the Western-backed Abbas as a guarantor of any Gazoo border deal, but there have been signs of growing disagreement between Abbas and Hamas over who would run Gazoo. In the spring, Abbas, the leader of Fatah, reached a tentative agreement with Hamas under which he would head a temporary unity government of experts in both the West Bank and Gazoo. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... major issues were left unresolved, including the fate of 40,000 government employees, hired during the Hamas era, and control over the Gazoo security forces. The gaps have only widened since the end of the war. Hamas had struck the unity deal at a time of a severe financial crisis, but it has become emboldened since the end of the war, because fighting with Israel boosted its popularity among Paleostinians. At the same time, Hamas needs Abbas as a link to the West. Al-Ahmad, the Abbas aide, said Hamas must step aside and let the West Bank-based Abbas govern. "We will say this government needs to govern Gazoo the way it governs the West Bank," al-Ahmad told the Voice of Paleostine radio station. "We can't have two political regimes, one in Gazoo and one in the West Bank." | |
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