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| Abbas: No reconciliation with Hamas before elections | |
| 2014-10-14 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Dashing hopes of imminent Paleostinian Authority control over the Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said that reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, will not materialize before national elections are held next year.
"National reconciliation and an end to the [political] divide will be realized with the conducting of parliamentary and presidential elections," Abbas said in a message published by official Paleostinian news agency WAFA. "This was agreed upon in Egypt, Doha and Gazoo last April." Hamas and Fatah jointly appointed a unity technocrat government in June, ostensibly ending seven years of political strife. According to the reconciliation agreement, the government was tasked with preparing for nationwide elections within six month, a timetable delayed by the Gazoo operation. But Abbas had a falling out with Hamas over the summer, when two members of the movement kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, sparking a powerful Israeli crackdown throughout the PA-held territories. At the same time, Israeli intelligence revealed information pointing at a Hamas plot to overthrow Abbas and instigate a third intifada, or violent uprising, in the West Bank. In his message to the media, Abbas asserted that the Paleostinian government would take full control of Gazoo reconstruction money, and that "no faction or party has the right to receive these funds," a clear allusion to Hamas's ambitions to reap the political benefits of reconstruction. "The international community and the donor states have high confidence in the performance of the Paleostinian Authority," he said. ÙAbbas's comments were received with rage by Hamas. Salah Bardawil, a Hamas official in Gazoo, said that the Paleostinian president was clearly "not serious" about the need for national reconciliation. "What about the Cairo and Gazoo agreements and the unity government that visited Gazoo just days ago?" mused Bardawil in an interview with Hamas daily Al-Resalah on Monday. "Is this not reconciliation?" According to Al-Resalah, Abbas told journalists in Cairo that "there is no future for a country where more than half the people are militiamen, a situation that will never change without elections." Bardawil said that Abbas's statements "destroyed everything previously agreed upon" and "poisoned the atmosphere of reconciliation." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Long enough so that I lost my wager. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-14 10:37 |
| #1 Well, that didn't take long. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-14 09:24 |