Hamas and Fatah sign reconciliation agreement
 

The leaders of Fatah and Hamas, the main Palestinian factions, have signed a deal in Cairo aimed at ending their four-year rift.

Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinians had decided to "turn the dark page of division for ever".

Mr Abbas and Hamas's Khaled Meshaal had not met since the expulsion of Fatah from Gaza in 2007 following the shock Hamas election victory a year earlier.

The recent Arab uprisings have given fresh momentum to reconciliation.

The agreement paves the way for a joint interim government ahead of national elections next year.

The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority runs parts of the West Bank, while Hamas governs Gaza.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13277734


Note: 4 May 2011 Last updated at 12:48 GMT

Gee, I wonder what it was they found both had in common to rally around?



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Historically, they usually do not like these agreements hold ... so hope is ... .. Put the odds :hmm2:

It was bound to happen, Fatah have been thoroughly stuffed and with the ongoing revelations would have been pretty well trashed in the next elections.
Its a crazy situation where Fatah have had to stand with Hamas in order to have any chance of standing against them.

Exactly where have I heard it before

Errr....what?

Good, can we stop giving the PA any support until they divorce themselves from an organization the US government rightly defines as a terrorist organization?

It's as if AQ controlled a region, and we elected to look the other way. We took out the Taliban because they were in bed with AQ, and we give support to a government with a large component of another terrorist organization.

Tater, your government helped push the move forward.
Them sneaky bastids were very shrewd in using US language in the recent proposal which then showed the US publicly rejecting its own stated policy.

He he....and i thought that its Hamas ass on fire.

Like cease fire agreements?



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You really should get your head out of the sand MH.
Time and again you are simply supporting Hamas purely because you won't think at all.

OK i will....

Yeah, something like that...

My current government seems to think that it's OK to chat with terrorists. They are talking to the Taliban, too. Both groups need killin', not talkin' (cause that's what we should do with religious terrorists*).

*I intentionally add "religious" because a religious motivation makes changing minds virtually impossible. They believe without proof by definition. Rationality therefore is pointless.

All governments do, its just that some governments say they don't and some people really believe their governments when they say it.
Are you one of those people who believe it tater?