...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
chief Ziyad al-Nakhaleh in Beirut to discuss "mechanisms for achieving [Paleostinian] reconciliation," according to the official Paleostinian Authority WAFA news agency.
"Fatah is ready to achieve reconciliation and hold elections to renew the legitimacy of the components of the Paleostinian political system," Rajoub says.
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of talks between various Paleostinian factions to mend the rifts between Fatah, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, and other Paleostinian groups. PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
led a meeting of Paleostinian faction chiefs in early September at which both Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza 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...and al-Nakhaleh spoke.
Many Paleostinians remain skeptical that the talks will lead to national unity. Several attempts to reconcile the various Paleostinian factions since the 2007 rift between Fatah and Hamas have fizzled out.
Islamic Jihad first split from Fatah in 1994, when it left the Paleostine Liberation Organization in protest of the Oslo grinding of the peace processor between Israel and the Paleostinians.
Al-Nakhaleh has also remarked that Islamic Jihad is conditioning Paleostinian unity on joining a "PLO that does not recognize Israel," a demand unlikely to be granted.