Posted on 07/13/2009 2:00:26 AM PDT by forkinsocket
Egypt has ceased efforts to mediate the formation of a national unity government between the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, Israel Radio reported on Saturday.
Officials who met with the senior echelon of Egyptian intelligence said that Cairo is instead proposing that two separate governments ? the Hamas regime in Gaza and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank ? continue to function until general elections are held.
In parallel, Egypt would like to see the Palestinian factions agree on the formation of a committee that will lay the groundwork for the next elections as well as the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported.
Hamas has informed the Egyptians that it is demanding that Fatah release all of the group's members that are currently in Palestinian Authority prisons before the resumption of reconciliation talks in Cairo, which is scheduled for to take place in two weeks.
Hamas says that if its members are not released, it will boycott the Cairo talks, Israel Radio reported.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in comments published Saturday, says he will accept any Egyptian proposal on reconciling Palestinian factions that "would end the siege on the Palestinian people."
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Ooops, what a surprise. (/s)
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Why would Egypt want to empower the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas) on its border?
Hamas holds Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and Fatah (back in June) announced that it will in fact release *all* Hamas prisoners, just as Hamas demanded. And of course, the continued split results in a continued intransigence by the mass-murdering Arab Moslem factions of the PLO regarding talks with Israel, but Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the rest refuse to recognize Israel, irrespective of anything — including the ex cathedra statements by the idiot Marxist from Kenya.
Palestinian Fault Line Exposed
Campus Report | June 8, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline
Posted on 06/08/2009 8:35:13 AM PDT by bs9021
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2267205/posts
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