http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9961&Itemid=56
Earlier on Wednesday delegations headed by Musa Abu Marzoka, member of Hamas Politburo member, and Azzam al-Ahmad, member of Fatah central committee started talks to reach the long awaited unity deal mediated by the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Nabeel al-Arabi.
Sources close to Azzam al-Ahmad of Fatah told PNN that the deal have in fact been signed adding that al-Ahmad and Abu Marzoka will announced the deal in a press conference at 8:00 PM ( 9:00 PM local Palestinian time).
In a phone call from Cairo al-Ahmad told PNN “we have reached reconciliation deal and both Fatah and Hamas have signed it.”
According to sources in Cairo that Fatah and Hamas signed the initial deal, while other Palestinian groups will arrive in Cairo within a week to sign the deal as well.
The Islamic movement Hamas is at loggerheads with Fatah, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, since Hamas won the parliamentary elections in January of 2006. Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip ending months of bloody conflict with Fatah allied security forces. Egypt and other Arab countries attempts of reaching a reconciliation deal between the two largest Palestinian factions have failed so far.
According to internal sources the agreement will include the formation of a care taker government until elections take place in both the West Bank and Gaza.
達共識 巴勒斯坦期盼1年內大選
轉貼來源: 2011/4/28 撰稿‧編輯：吳寧康 新聞引據： 中央社
http://news.rti.org.tw/index_newsContent.aspx?nid=293837&id=6&id2=2
對立的巴勒斯坦組織哈瑪斯集團(Hamas)與法塔(Fatah)在開羅達成非正式協議，將設立過渡聯合政府、舉辦選舉。圖右為法塔代表團負責人阿瑪德(Azzam al-Ahmad)、左為哈瑪斯的第二號人物阿布馬祖格(Mussa Abu Marzuq)(AFP)
埃及官方「中東新聞社」(MENA)報導，對立的巴勒斯坦組織哈瑪斯集團(Hamas)與法塔(Fatah)，27日在開羅達成非正式協議，將設立過渡聯合政府、舉辦選舉。
報導指出，這2個分裂派系談判討論全面性議題，包括在特定授權下組成過渡政府、敲定選舉日期，並已達成完整的非正式協議。
報導中說，所有巴勒斯坦派系將在埃及召開會議，並於開羅簽署和解協議。法塔代表團負責人阿瑪德(Azzam al-Ahmad)表示，他們已達成全面和最終協議，並要求在1年內舉行總統與國會選舉。
相同的協議原本去年就可獲得各方同意，但哈瑪斯集團在最後關頭，抗議協議內容未經他們同意便遭更動，因此退出。
The division ends
Egypt brokers successful Fateh and Hamas reconciliation last night
source: Palestine Monitor 28 April 2011
http://palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1779
"[Palestinian unity] is the best weapon we have against the occupation," said Senior Fatah Central Committee member Azam al-Ahmad following the announcement of reconciliation agreement in Cairo.
At 9:00pm last night, representatives from Palestine’s two authorities, Fateh and Hamas, announced their reconciliation following talks begun in Damascus earlier this year. Now in Egypt, the reunified Palsetinian leaderships from Gaza and the West Bank have invited all of Palestine’s disparate groups to gather together in Cairo, set aside their differences, and focus on ending the occupation.
Two days ago, tens of thousands of Palestinians pressured Fateh and Hamas to reconcile via a Facebook page, building on the momentum and demands of the March 15 youth movement.
Diplomatic sources told the Jerusalem Post that "the recent upheavals in the Arab world, as well as the release in February by Al Jazeera of the ’Palestine Papers’ that provided details of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under Ehud Olmert’s government, has led the Palestinians to hunker down in rigid positions. The sources said that this ’rigidity’ in the Palestinian positions was made clear to Quartet representatives when they met twice over the last three weeks with Saeb Erekat."
Al Jazeera English’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara stated the reconciliation deal is a result of the geopolitical reality following the Arab Spring sweeping Palestine and Israel’s neighbors.
"At the end, you could say that President Abbas has lost his patron in Egypt, which is President Mubarak, and Hamas is more on less facing almost similar trouble now, with Bashar Al-Assad [Syria’s president] facing his own trouble in Damascus,"Bishara said. "So with the US keeping a distance, Israel not delivering the goods on the peace process and the settlements, it was time for Palestinians to come together and agree on what they basically agreed on almost a year and a half ago."
ISRAEL THREATENS
"Even before the details of the reconciliation deal were officially [announced], Israel attacked the agreement," Egyptian official Al-Ahmad said.
President Benjamin Netanyahu was the first to respond to the deal. He went on the attack.
"The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both," Netanyahu said. Beset on all sides - Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are all facing differeing levels of insurrection and revolution - Knesset is keeping both eyes open as the Arab Spring blossoms across the region. If a new regime in Egypt will accept Sadat-era peace agreements or old gas deals are questions worrying Israel, comfortable in the status quo of hushed yet rapid settlement growth, a siege around Gaza, and increasing interior culls of citizen freedoms.
Netanyahu added that his ultimatum would change evaporate if a reunified Palestinian movememnt disavowed violence, recognized Israel and accept previous agreements like the Oslo Accords.
Barak Obama’s administration has tread lightly, with the National Security Council expressing guarded optimism for a potential empowerment of democratically-elected Hamas, a group considered by Washington a terrorist organization. Congressmen told the New York Times the millions of US funds to the PA will be reconsidered.
Republican politicians will host Netanyahu in Washington next week, and have called for suspension of aid to the PA. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and other right-wing Israeli politicians have also threatened to withhold tax revenue collected by Israel because the PA has crossed the red line.
Abbas Tells Israeli Delegation Netanyahu does not want Peace
source: WAFA 28/4/2011
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=16000
RAMALLAH, April 28, 2011 (WAFA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday told an Israeli peace delegation that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want peace.
Abbas received the Israeli delegation at his headquarters in Ramallah to discuss the initiative, which calls for establishing two states living in peace next to each other and for finding a solution to the refugee question and Jerusalem
Abbas told the Israeli delegation that he was very close to reaching a peace agreement with Israel
“We were very close but couldn’t conclude (an agreement),” said Abbas about the talks with Olmert.
He said an agreement on borders and security was within reach and could have been concluded, On borders, he said, the two sides agreed to the 1967 borders with land swap, and on security, Abbas proposed having a third party, such as NATO, to deploy forces in the Palestinian areas to monitor the area, but not Israeli forces.
“We were very close, but couldn’t conclude it. We had understandings on these issues,” said Abbas.
“We wanted to continue with Netanyahu, but he insisted to start from zero,” he said.
Netanyahu, said Abbas, rejected the idea of having NATO forces in the West Bank and insisted on having Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley and parts of the West Bank for 40 years.
“”I want to rely on my troops,” Netanyahu told Abbas, who responded saying: “I said to him this is an occupation, so keep it.”
Abbas said when Netanyahu closed all the doors in front of the peace talks, he had no choice but to seek other avenues, including going to the United Nations Security Council.
President Abbas talked about the new reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, which had upset Israel , apparently including the Israeli delegation visiting Ramallah, which told Abbas that they were reconsidering their visit to Ramallah after the reconciliation agreement was announced Wednesday night in Cairo
“Netanyahu has said time and time again that the Palestinian Authority must choose between Hamas and peace talks, but I responded by saying Hamas is part of the Palestinian people,” he said. “Netanyahu must make a decision between settlement construction and peace,” stressed Abbas.
He said that politics is the job of the PLO and its chairman, and not of the government.
Abbas said the reconciliation agreement is the first step towards having a government of technocrats, whose only purpose is to rebuild Gaza and prepare for elections, and not to hold negotiations with Israel
Abbas said the Israeli peace initiative could be a base for peace talks. He called on Netanyahu to adopt it as well, after he rejected it when it was presented to him.
The delegation thanked Abbas and considered his acceptance and welcoming of the initiative a major step forward towards accomplishing peace.
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