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| Hamas New Politburo Holds First Meeting in Qatar |
| 2013-04-20 |
| [An Nahar] Leaders of Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, met in Qatar on Friday amid renewed impetus for a unity government after the resignation of prime minister Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... , a Paleostinian official told Agence La Belle France Presse. Newly re-elected Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal chaired the meeting in his base in exile in Qatar, which was also attended by Hamas leaders from Gazoo including its prime minister Ismail Haniya. Momentum has built for reconciliation between Hamas and the Fatah movement of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... since the resignation of Fayyad, a U.S.-trained economist whose appointment as premier was never recognized by the Islamists. "The meeting began on Thursday and will continue until Saturday," the official said, requesting anonymity. Hamas leaders will discuss "Paleostinian reconciliation, developments in the Paleostinian arena following Fayyad's resignation, as well as ways of pressing Israel to release Paleostinian prisoners," the official said. The Islamists never recognized Fayyad's appointment to replace Haniya after their seizure of Gazoo in bloody street battles in 2007 that effectively divided the Paleostinian territories in two, with Abbas' writ confined to the West Bank. |
| Posted by:Fred |