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Hamas breaks off talks after shelling
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has said talks between his ruling Hamas party and President Mahmoud Abbas on forming a national unity government have been "suspended".
Might as well, it's not like this was going anywhere.
"The Prime Minister's office announces the suspension of discussions underway with regard to the national union government," Mr Haniyeh announced at the opening of an emergency Cabinet meeting. "The government calls on our people to unite faced with this barbaric (Israeli) attack," he added, just hours after 18 Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling against houses in the northern Gaza Strip.

Mr Abbas had been in Gaza since late Monday in a bid to hold crunch talks with the Hamas-led Cabinet on forming a unity government after months of deadlock and failure in managing to persuade Hamas to soften its hardline stance. "We strongly condemn this terrible massacre and atrocity committed against our people in Beit Hanoun, against children, women and the elderly," Mr Abbas has said. "We call on the Security Council to meet urgenly to stop these massacres. The world must act immediately."
Posted by: Fred 2006-11-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=171394