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Palestinian Factions (Hamas and Fatah) Announce Deal on Unity Government
NY Times ^ | April 23, 2014 | Wissam Nasar

Posted on 04/23/2014 12:29:16 PM PDT by C19fan

The two main Palestinian factions announced an agreement on Wednesday to heal a seven-year schism and form a unity government within five weeks that would prepare for Palestinian elections six months later.

The two groups — the Palestine Liberation Organization, which runs the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas, the militant Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip — have reached similar accords before that were never carried out. But the latest deal comes as the fragile American-brokered peace efforts between the Palestinians and Israel are approaching an April 29 deadline without a resolution in sight. People familiar with the discussions have said the Israeli and Palestinian sides were far apart even on how to extend the talks past the deadline.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; iran; israel; lebanon; palestine; plo; sinai; waronterror
Ruskies back in Egypt and now if this sticks Hamas and the PLO buddies again. Way to go ZERO!
1 posted on 04/23/2014 12:29:16 PM PDT by C19fan
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2 posted on 04/23/2014 12:38:43 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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I’m not losing any sleep over the idea that these islamofactions are going to bury the axe. They are just jockeying for an advantage and will turn on each other in an instant. Why do you think that Israel has manged to survive? The Arabs have always hated each other even more than they do the Jews.


3 posted on 04/23/2014 12:39:53 PM PDT by Seruzawa (Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming to breakfast.)
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IDF locate, target and blast these pigastinians back to allah


4 posted on 04/23/2014 1:30:11 PM PDT by onedoug
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