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| Moscow Hosts Fatah, Hamas Members Amid Paleo Unity Efforts |
| 2018-12-02 |
| [JP] Hamas leader Ismael Haniyyeh was slated to arrive in Russia on Thursday, as the Kremlin seems to be wading into the Palestinian political foray that traditionally has been the diplomatic turf of the United States. This comes after Nabil Sha'ath, a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and Hussein al-Sheikh, a member of the Central Committee of Abbas' ruling Fatah faction who is responsible for overseeing reconciliation talks with rival Hamas, held discussions this week with officials in Moscow. "There is a Russian effort to work on creating Palestinian unity, especially after the negative news that was published suggesting that a meeting held in Cairo was not fruitful," Sha'ath related to The Media Line from the Russian capital. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Get Hizbullah to join these two and give the result a new name... Tango works for me. |
| Posted by: Blinky Flomoling9574 2018-12-02 15:28 |
| #3 tw has good point Hundreds, maybe thousands, of Fatah partisans have been executed by Hamas and Fatah holds hundreds, maybe thousands, of Hamas partisans in prison and has probably tortured most of them. So unity is a tough sell. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-12-02 08:22 |
| #2 Fatah was a Soviet client, as I recall. But I don’t think Moscow will find a win here, though no doubt some something trumpeted as a breakthrough will be announced. Equally no doubt it will quickly turn out to have bren merely a hudna, just like all the breakthroughs Egypt has come up with. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-02 05:40 |
| #1 In other news: 'Putin refuses to talk to me', Ukraine's Poroshenko tells FRANCE 24 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-02 02:22 |