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| Hamas 'Forced' into Palestinian Unity Deal |
| 2014-05-08 |
| [An Nahar] Unprecedented pressure on Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, from both Israel's blockade of Gazoo and a hostile Egypt, forced the Islamist movement to accept reconciliation terms dictated by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , analysts say. But Hamas's subservience to the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the context of the unity deal could work to its advantage, allowing it to return to its krazed killer roots, freed from the responsibilities of governance. Hamas and the Western-backed PLO, which is dominated by Abbas's secular Fatah party, signed a surprise reconciliation agreement on April 23 in a bid to end years of bitter and sometime bloody rivalry. Under terms of the deal, the two sides would work together to form an "independent government" of technocrats, to be headed by Abbas, that would pave the way for long-delayed elections. Abbas has insisted the government will follow his policy of recognizing Israel, rejecting violence and abiding by past peace agreements. Hamas has insisted however that as a movement it remains committed to Israel's destruction, and it's unclear how it would reconcile that stance with support for such a government. Pressure on Hamas has been growing steadily since last July, when the Egyptian army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... of the Moslem Brüderbund. Hamas is the Paleostinian offshoot of the Brotherhood and had warm relations with Morsi. After Morsi's ouster, Egypt began destroying hundreds of tunnels along the Gazoo border used to import construction materials, fuel, arms and money, plunging the besieged Strip into its worst-ever energy crisis and exacerbating an already-dire humanitarian situation. "The fall of the Brotherhood in Egypt and its effect on Gazoo with the closure of tunnels and the border crossing, as well as resultant financial difficulties, forced Hamas to seek a solution," said Naji Sharab, politics professor at Gazoo's Al-Azhar University. "The movement moved towards reconciliation as the best option" to relieve that pressure, he told AFP. |
| Posted by:Fred |