Politics: Palestine: Abbas seeks unity govt with Hamas and recognition of Israel but Hamas leaders will only agree to a ceasefire
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Yesterday, at the opening sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, the elected President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that a new unity government including both the majority party Hamas and the main minority party Fatah -- to which Abbas belongs -- would recognize the State of Israel.
2nd Update (Sep25,2k6):While that may be the case, current Prime Minister Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas quickly reneged personally on the proposal.
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[Haniyeh] said Friday he will not head a government that recognizes Israel, striking a potential blow to President Mahmoud Abbas' attempts to create a national unity government.MidEast > Palestine
Haniyeh spoke a day after Abbas indicated at the United Nations that a coalition government of Hamas and Abbas' Fatah movement would recognize the Jewish state.
"I personally will not head any government that recognizes Israel," Haniyeh said in a mosque sermon in Gaza City, laying out his group's position in coalition talks with Abbas.
However, Haniyeh said Hamas is ready to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem — areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War — and to honor a long-term truce with Israel.
"We support establishing a Palestinian state in the land of 1967 at this stage, but in return for a cease-fire, not recognition," Haniyeh said.The rhetoric eployed here is so bizarre it points to a mass psychosis dominating the collective psyche of the Hamas leadership. Hamas, nor any other Palestinan force, has any control over the territories it lost in the insane 1967 War lawnched by a consortium of Arab states and calling upon Palestinians to leave their homes and flee to Jordan and Syria (which hundreds of thousands did, only to become permanent refugees there and losing their properties in Insrael, while those Arabs who stayed put still live in, and thrive in, posses their land in, and vote in Israel). So here is Haniyeh talking about establishing a Palestinian state in the occupied territories without recognizing Israel, but "graciously" agreeing to a casefire.
Of course, what's motivating Haniyeh at all toward a possible unity govt that he nevertheless refuses to lead, is the Palestinian Authority's inability to pay salaries of PA employees in all its various departments. The PA govt is the major employer in Palestine, and at the same time has cut off possiblities of employment of some of its populace who used to cross over the border daily into Israel to jobs. But the incessant terrorism of Hamas and, at the time, Fatah as well brawt that open border to a close. So, the Hamas govt raises few of its required revenues in taxes on incomes, sales, or other sources in the the moribund Palestinian economy. At the same time, it has squandered the goodwill of its Western donor-states due it its continued failure to halt the terrorists of its armed wings.
It's for these reasons that Abbas has left the exterminationist fantasyland to propose a unity a govt, recognize Israel and obtain the Western dole. But the Hamas leader cannot make the same journey. He cannot admit that Palestine would be a independent country prospering in peace and development were it to recognize its neighbour to which it lost the 1967 War the Arab states foisted in it against Israel.
Nevertheless, it's doubtful Abbas' unity govt can persuade the Western donor-states to come thru, if Hamas still manoeuvres for a ceasefire instead of recognition.
-- Politicarp
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