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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Deputy Paleo PM says govÂ’t could be disbanded
2007-05-01
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The deputy Palestinian prime minister, a Fatah leader, said on Monday that a six-week-old unity government led by Hamas should be disbanded if a Western embargo is not lifted within three months.
Better hurry or Olmert will beat you to it.
Azzam al-Ahmad’s comments, made to public school teachers holding a one-day strike over unpaid wages, were the first of their kind by a leader of the unity government that Hamas Islamists formed with President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah faction. “If the economic and national siege on the Palestinian people is not lifted in three months, this government should leave,” al-Ahmad told hundreds of teachers after they tried to storm government offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, said last week that the militant group would reassess its options in one to two months if sanctions remained in place. But Haniyeh did not say that disbanding the government was one of those options.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  No PA, no Oslo. No Oslo, no water, no electricity. Works for me. The Paleos sh*t in their messkits and now they need to live in it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-05-01 23:41  

#5  We need to make sure that no aid flows until another government is put in place that will recognize Israel and renounce terrorism. The Palestinians need a monumental smackdown for having elected Hamas in the first place.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-01 17:05  

#4  "Whom Miz Condi is going to negotiate with?"

Shuttle talks between Lipni, Ayalon, and Leiberman, maybe?
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-05-01 10:22  

#3  Aw, too bad. I had such high hopes for the Unity Government™...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-05-01 09:08  

#2  Would anyone notice?

Whom Miz Condi is going to negotiate with?
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-05-01 08:34  

#1  Would anyone notice?
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-05-01 01:39  

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