Committed and promoted by my agenda-pushing paper:
"Palestinian rivals at odds as unity talks near" Associated Press / June 13, 2011
JERUSALEM — Ceremoniously announced last month, reconciliation between the two rival Palestinian leaderships — the secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas — hit a serious snag yesterday, another sign the effort is not going well....
The announcement boded poorly for a new round of unity talks set to begin this week.
Ironically, a breakdown in the reconciliation process could potentially bolster US efforts to restart peace talks. Israel has balked at engaging a Palestinian government that includes Hamas militants, and has urged the Palestinian Authority to abandon the bid to draw closer to Hamas and negotiate instead.
Fatah and Hamas have been at loggerheads since the Islamic militant group won parliamentary elections in 2006. A short-lived unity government disintegrated the next year, with Hamas overrunning the Gaza Strip.
Sometimes the AmeriKan media "forgets" the first part.
Since then, the Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, has governed only in the West Bank.
And has acted as a proxy agent for Usrael.
Last month, the Palestinian rivals, unnerved by the unrest sweeping the Arab world, announced plans to reconcile and form a caretaker government....
Because Palestinians protested for them to. Paper makes it sound like it was a revolt.
Since a high-profile signing ceremony in Cairo on May 4, there has been little progress in the unity process.
Wishful thinking on the part of my Zionist prism?
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Related: Hamas Hands Power to Palestinian Authority
What would they call progress?
