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| PA: No response from Hamas for Abbas visit |
| 2011-03-19 |
| [Arab News] A senior Paleostinian official on Thursday said that the Paleostinian leadership did not receive an official response from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement with regard to the visit of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. He was one of the founding members of Fatah. Since no one would talk to him anymore in the wake of the Karine A incident, Yasser Arafat appointed Abbas prime minister in 2003. Arafat then proceeded to pretend there was no such thing as a prime minister and Abbas resigned in frustration in October of the same year. Arafat keeled over dead from AIDS the next year, and Abbas ran in the presidential election in January 2005. Fatah managed to split down the middle between the Greedy Old Guard and the Young Bloodthirsty Guys for the legislative elections, which threw the whole thing to Hamäs. This resulted in a Government of National Unity™, which worked about as well as those things usually do, and Hamäs soon beat up Fatah's goons and threw them out of Gazoo. Recently Hamäs points out, accurately, that Abbas' term as president has expired, but refuses to allow any elections to take place, which prevents him from gracefully stepping down. This the sort of thing we usually expect in Paleostine... to Gazoo Strip. Saleh Ra'fat, a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, said that "the Paleostinian leadership has not received until this moment an official response from Hamas regarding Abu Mazen (Abbas) visit to Gazoo Strip." Ra'fat told the Voice of Paleostine Radio that "it is clear that the Hamas leadership wants to turn Abu Mazen's initiative to new meetings for national reconciliation dialogue, although it is ended." The PLO official warned that the "announcements of Hamas leaders and front man of the movement's readiness to meet with President Abbas in Gazoo or any place outside Paleostinian territories indicates that Hamas wants to start new rounds of national dialogue and not to end the internal split." On Wednesday, Abbas announced that he is ready to go to Gazoo Strip to end the internal split and to form an independent government. Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage... Hamas police in Gazoo jugged a Paleostinian protester and two Paleostinian cameramen on Thursday while breaking up a rally calling for political reconciliation, and 16 other protesters holed themselves up in a UN school, where Hamas police are prevented from operating. About 40 activists gathered in front of a UN school, waving flags and chanting slogans for unity between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions. When Hamas police approached the group, it dispersed, and police jugged the three Paleostinians. Protester Nuha Wajeh told news hounds by text message that the group vows not to leave the school until representatives from the dueling Paleostinian parties meet with them and pledge to end their bitter rivalry. Chris Gunness, front man of UNRWA, which aids refugees, said his agency appealed to authorities in Gazoo to "allow these 16 people safe passage from the UNRWA compound and to guarantee their safety." |
| Posted by:Fred |