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| Palestinian Unity Talks Begin In Gaza | |
| 2014-04-23 | |
| [Ynet] First PLO delegation since 2007 festivities between Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Fatah heads to Gazoo for Paleostinian unity talks. The Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) sent a delegation to Gazoo on Tuesday to negotiate unity with bad boy group Hamas for the first time since their 2007 conflict, potentially boosting Fatah leader and Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's position. Few Paleostinians expect a breakthrough in the deadlock that has paralysed Paleostinian politics, and many have low expectations of any resolution to the seemingly endless duel. A deal could restore a measure of illusory sovereignty to Abbas in Gazoo and boost his negotiating power with Israel in any future peace talks, although such a partnership could also provoke a backlash from Israel against the PLO in the West Bank. The reconciliation mission coincided with a meeting between Abbas's Fatah-led group and Israeli peace negotiators in Jerusalem to try to extend talks beyond an April 29 deadline. Hamas and Fatah have failed since 2011 to implement an Egyptian-brokered unity deal because of disputes over power-sharing and the handling of conflict with Israel. Azzam Al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official, denied that the attempt to negotiate a deal with Hamas was designed merely to strengthen Abbas's hand in peace talks with Israel. "We want to end the division whether there is negotiation (with Israel) or there isn't. We want to build Gazoo and the West Bank and end the (Israeli) occupation," Al-Ahmed told official Paleostinian news agency WAFA. A Hamas big turban based in Egypt arrived in Gazoo on Monday to prepare for talks aimed at reaching a reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah. Moussa Abu Marzouk, responsible for external affairs, met with Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... ahead of a visit by Fatah officials on later this week. If Paleostinian unity talks end with a deal, paving the way to hold elections and plan a national strategy towards Israel, not only might Abbas gain negotiating power, but Hamas, hemmed in by an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, might become less isolated. The two sides disagree on policy toward Israel. Islamist Hamas refuses to renounce using force against the Jewish state and secular Western-backed Fatah wants a deal with Israel to set up a Paleostinian state in Gazoo, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem - lands Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War. Both Hamas and Fatah also persistently trade blame over their arrests of rival members. Dozens of prisoners have been held by each side since Hamas took control of Gazoo and Fatah remained the predominant party in the Israeli-occupied West Bank following Hamas's surprising win in 2006 parliamentary polls. "If Fatah possesses the political will to implement the agreement, we would be going forward on the right direction to please our people," Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... told Rooters. "My feeling is closer to pessimism than optimism," Paleostinian Gazoo political analyst Talal Okal said.
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