Thursday, April 28, 2011

Palestinians agree to unity government, Israeli concern

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, could not wait to forge a peace agreement with Israel if it agreed a reconciliation with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). The agreement Fatah and Hamas agreed to form a transitional government of unity to the holding of presidential and legislative elections in a year, a document signed by Abbas and the head of Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, on Thursday in Cairo .

Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in a brief and bloody civil war in 2007, when he overthrew the government of Abbas. Fatah, the secular faction of Palestinian President controls the West Bank. The agreement also provides for the release of "political prisoners" and the reunification of the security forces of Fatah and Hamas, one of the main points of contention between the two movements.

"The Palestinian Authority must choose between peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. No chance for peace with both, "Netanyahu said after the two Palestinian groups announced that they had overcome their past differences. Netanyahu is expected to make a joint session of Congress during a visit to Washington next month, when plans to outline his plan to restart peace talks with Abbas' Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank.

The talks began in September with the aim of reaching an agreement within a year, but failed quickly after Netanyahu refused to extend a partial freeze construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But the chief aide to Abbas, Nabil Abu Rdaineh, said that reconciliation was not a matter of Israel.

"The agreement between Fatah and Hamas is an internal matter and has nothing to do with Israel. Netanyahu must choose between a peace deal with a united Palestinian people (...) and settlements. " The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas in Arabic) was founded in 1987 in Gaza by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, along with other Palestinian figures.

The radical Islamist ideology of Hamas combines Palestinian Muslim religious and nationalist, with Jerusalem as its main enemy. Governs the Gaza Strip. Its main objective is to recover the territories occupied by Israel considered. It is led by Khaled Meshaal. The National Movement for the Liberation of Palestine was founded in 1959 in Kuwait by Yasser Arafat.

In 1968 it became the dominant faction of the Liberation Organization (PLO). It is run by another of its founders and current president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas. Fatah promotes moderate leftist nationalism. Is the main party promoter of peace with the Israeli state.

The Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and the prime minister of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza symbolize the reconciliation of opposing forces.

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