轉貼來源:中央社2011/05/04 23:43:19
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（中央社開羅4日綜合外電報導）巴勒斯坦自治政府主席阿巴斯（Mahmoud Abbas）與哈瑪斯（Hamas）集團領袖馬夏艾（Khaled Meshaal），今天在開羅的和解典禮上言歸於好，結束雙方近4年爭鬥，將團結致力建國。
巴勒斯坦民眾在約旦河西岸和加薩走廊聚集，慶祝達成這項期待已久的協議，終結約旦河西岸和加薩走廊兩地當局打對台的局面，恢復因2007年6月爆發血腥戰鬥而瓦解的團結局面。
不過，以色列總理尼坦雅胡（BenjaminNetanyahu）正在海外巡訪的首站倫敦，他此行目標是要說服歐洲領導人，阿巴斯所屬的法塔（Fatah）派和伊斯蘭哈瑪斯集團達成這項協議，將對中東地區和平帶來災難。以色列將哈瑪斯列為恐怖組織，加以抵制。
阿巴斯表示：「我們宣布永遠告別分裂的黑暗時期。我們確信只要我們團結在一起，一定會成功。和解不僅為巴勒斯坦內部重整鋪路，也將促成公正的和平。」
他表示，尼坦雅胡現在勢必要「在（興建）屯墾區與和平間做選擇」，他並指責以色列反對巴勒斯坦和解協議，是要「找藉口迴避和平談判」。
這兩個派系達成的協議主張成立過渡政府，管理目前巴勒斯坦自治政府所在的約旦河西岸占領區和哈瑪斯集團控制的加薩走廊，並準備於1年內舉行國會和總統選舉。
巴勒斯坦人民認為，這項和解協議攸關他們在1967年戰爭中被以色列佔領土地上建立獨立國家的大業。
馬夏艾表示，哈瑪斯集團希望在約旦河西岸和加薩走廊的土地上，建立獨立自主的巴勒斯坦國，並以耶路撒冷（Jerusalem）為首都。
他說：「我們的目標是在約旦河西岸和加薩走廊建立自由且主權完整的巴勒斯坦國，以耶路撒冷為首都，沒有任何屯墾區，不放棄任何1吋土地，也不放棄巴勒斯坦難民返國的權利。」（譯者：中央社張詠晴）1000504
Abbas, Misha’al Announce End to Division at Reconciliation Ceremonies
source: WAFA Date:4/5/2011
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=16047
CAIRO, May 4, 2011 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Misha’al Wednesday announced end to the division that plagued the Palestinian cause for four years.
Speaking at the reconciliation ceremonies which kicked off in Cairo Wednesday afternoon following a brief delay, Abbas said that “after four dark years (of division) which have caused grave harm to our national interest, we meet to stress as one people and with one voice an end to the division, and to uniting the country, the people and the institutions.”
The ceremony, attended by all Palestinian factions, who had already signed the reconciliation agreement the night before, was attended by senior Egyptian officials, including the foreign minister and the head of the intelligence.
Abbas told the meeting that he was going in September to the United Nations to ask for recognition of the Palestinian state. However, he said, while that will happen on the ninth month, but if Israel continues to blackmail the Palestinians, he may go much earlier than that.
“If the blackmail continues,” he said, “it may be the fifth or sixth month, and not the ninth month. We will not accept blackmail.”
Abbas was referring to an Israeli decision to withhold funds it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority as a result of the reconciliation agreement.
He said while Israel first said it cannot make peace with divided Palestinians, it now says it cannot make peace with united Palestinians.
“We heard screams and threats by Israeli officials,” he said. “We had not and will not ask anyone permission to practice an internal Palestinian matter.”
“We did not violate Israeli law. We did not attack anyone. Yet we are being punished because we want to be reunited,” he said.
Abbas said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has to choose between peace and settlements.
He reiterated his position of abiding by international law and resolutions as well as the signed agreements which call for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
He also said the Palestinian people will continue with their struggle until they regain their national rights, including refugee rights based on international resolutions, including UN resolution 194 of 1948.
He said the national rights are not up for bargain and that “we reject any interim or partial solutions, particularly a provisional state with temporary borders.”
Abbas said he has denounced “terrorism in all its forms,” adding that “we will not accept pluralism of the security forces, only one authority, one weapon and one political authority.”
He said the Palestinian peaceful struggle had won international support.
Abbas asked the Palestinian factions to “have new arrangement with the people.” He said “the factions should realize that they have understood the lesson.”
He said the new government “will see the light soon,” adding that “we have fixed a date for the elections, and since I decide when elections will be held, I said three months is enough time or may be six, but they told me they agreed on one year. We will have elections within a year for the legislative council, the Palestinian National Council and the president.”
“The mission is not over yet,” he said.”It is just starting. Many do not want us to succeed and want us to stay divided. But we have to continue on this path until the end. We will certainly have difficulty and differences, but … we are capable of overcoming all these loopholes,” he said.
Hamas leader Khaled Misha’al, who spoke briefly as requested after Abbas, said that “the dark page of division is now behind us.”
He said, “I declared in the name of Hamas that we are ready to pay any price to achieve unity and to turn the terms (of the agreement) into facts on the ground.”
Misha’al said that Hamas wants to “get out of this difficult moment as soon as possible so that we will be free to take care of our national project.”
He said, “We want one leadership, one reference, one authority and one institution. We are one people with one cause.”
Misha’al said “we want a Palestinian state In the West Bank and Gaza with Jerusalem as its capital, and not one Israeli in it.”
He said that Hamas “is ready to talk and reach an understanding until we reach a common political viewpoint for resistance and diplomatic activity. Let us draw a new strategy that would force Netanyahu to withdraw from our land and force the international community to support our right.”
Palestinian factions celebrate unity deal
source:Al Jazeera and agencies
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/20115434236113769.html
Representatives of Palestinian factions have met in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to mark a landmark reconciliation agreement signed a day earlier.
Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the Hamas movement, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, were attending Wednesday's ceremony, meeting face-to-face for the first time since 2006.
Speaking at the ceremony, Abbas said Palestinians had turned the "black page" of division between the two rivals.
"We announce to Palestinians that we turn forever the black page of division," he said.
Taking the podium after Abbas, Meshaal said that his group's "only fight is with Israel" and that the four-year-old rift with Fatah was "behind us".
"Our aim is to establish a free and completely sovereign Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, whose capital is Jerusalem, without any settlers and without giving up a single inch of land and without giving up on the right of return [of Palestinian refugees]."
Representatives of the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab League were also present at the gathering at the headquarters of the Egyptian intelligence agency.
The unity deal, which was signed on Tuesday, aims to end the feud between the ideologically divided factions in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. It involves members of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Islamic Jihad, Popular Resistance Committee and Hamas.
It will pave the way for presidential and legislative elections within a year.
'Start of a process'
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, said people there saw the agreement as the start of a process.
"But they are happy that for the first time in years, there's acknowledgement by Hamas and Fatah that one people cannot be ruled by two governments."
Israel, the United States and the European Union consider Hamas, which controls Gaza, a "terrorist organisation".
The Quartet of Mideast mediators - the US, the EU, United Nations and Russia - has long demanded that Hamas renounce violence and recognise the principle of Israel's right to exist.
'Will to agree'
Abbas said Israel does not wish to see the Palestinians united because it thrives on their divisions.
"There are no guarantees for the success of the agreement, which has many enemies and there are attempts to undermine the agreement from several parties," Abbas told the Al-Ahram newspaper.
"Despite the fact that there are no guarantees to make this agreement successful there is a will and a way to agree," he said.
"It is not required of Hamas to recognise Israel. We will form a government of technocrats and we will not ask Hamas to recognise Israel."
Former US president Jimmy Carter urged the international community to support the deal, saying it would improve the chances for Middle East peace.
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, he called on the US and the international community to look past Hamas's pledge to destroy Israel and argued for the potential benefits of a unified Palestinian democracy.
"If the United States and the international community support this effort, they can help Palestinian democracy and establish the basis for a unified Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza that can make a secure peace with Israel," Carter wrote.
Bitter divisions
Under the deal, three separate committees will be formed, to plan for the upcoming elections, reform the PLO, and to incorporate a security system between Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera's Tadros said one of the biggest challenges would be to merge all the existing security forces into a national Palestinian force.
"In the West Bank alone there are three separate forces," she said. "In Gaza, you have Hamas police forces and armed military wing. So how do you combine all these forces into one Palestinian national force? That is a huge question."
Palestinian officials say the new government's role will be to manage affairs in the Palestinian territories, while the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) will remain in charge of peace talks with Israel.
Fatah and Hamas have been bitterly divided since June 2007 when Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, routing Fatah loyalists in bloody confrontations that effectively split the Palestinian territories into two separate entities with separate governments.
Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston, reporting from Gaza City, said about 1,000 people there were celebrating the deal, waving flags of Fatah, Hamas and other groups.
"About a month ago, that would have been an impossible scene in Gaza," she said.
She said many people in Gaza, remembering what happened in 2007, when about 100 people were killed in fighting, welcomed the unity deal.
"When you speak to people who were victims during the 2007 fighting, they say they desperately want reconciliation", she said.
"They want their children to no longer live under Israeli-Egyptian siege and they feel that reconciliation is the best way forward."
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