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| Senior Fatah official rules out reconciliation with rival Hamas |
| 2007-10-12 |
| Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction ruled out talks with Hamas on Thursday, while Israel said any such dialogue with the Islamists could "torpedo" a peace deal. Palestinian sources familiar with the matter said members of Hamas and Fatah had discussed holding peace talks, but Fatah leaders said they had not backed any meeting and rejected dialogue with Hamas unless it cedes control of the Gaza Strip, which it seized in fighting with Abbas's forces in June. "What happened in Gaza was a military coup against legitimacy and against democracy," Abdallah Franji, who is close to Abbas and a member of Fatah's central committee, told Reuters. "If they retreat then we can talk. Now we cannot." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I sense the time is right for... the Three State Solution! (is that a ™ moment? Hard to know when it's a ™ moment or just another hundredth-monkey thing :) |
| Posted by: Hyper 2007-10-12 18:39 |