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After the reconciliation agreement was signed between leaders of the Fatah and Hamas Palestinian factions in Cairo on 4 May, we were told that a unity government would be formed within days.
Yet more than three weeks later, there is little sign of it and the questions the agreement raised when it was first signed, stand unanswered.
It is to be noted that the Ramallah-based PA has never repudiated the policies that created and maintained the division after Fatah refused to accept Hamas 2006 election victory and worked with the Bush administration to overturn the result. No one behind these grave actions has ever been held to account. Overwhelming evidence indicates that these actions include:
Officials loyal to Abbas PA formed a secret committee with the US, Israel and Egypts deposed Mubarak regime to undermine the PA national unity government in 2007;
Palestinian Authority officials strenuously lobbied Israel against prisoner swap with Hamas that could have freed 1,000 Palestinians;
Ramallah Palestinian Authority officials constantly complained to Israel and the United States that the siege of Gaza wasnt tight enough, and urged that more should be done to tighten it.
What happened to Palestinian "reconciliation"? | The Electronic Intifada
Yet more than three weeks later, there is little sign of it and the questions the agreement raised when it was first signed, stand unanswered.
It is to be noted that the Ramallah-based PA has never repudiated the policies that created and maintained the division after Fatah refused to accept Hamas 2006 election victory and worked with the Bush administration to overturn the result. No one behind these grave actions has ever been held to account. Overwhelming evidence indicates that these actions include:
Officials loyal to Abbas PA formed a secret committee with the US, Israel and Egypts deposed Mubarak regime to undermine the PA national unity government in 2007;
Palestinian Authority officials strenuously lobbied Israel against prisoner swap with Hamas that could have freed 1,000 Palestinians;
Ramallah Palestinian Authority officials constantly complained to Israel and the United States that the siege of Gaza wasnt tight enough, and urged that more should be done to tighten it.
What happened to Palestinian "reconciliation"? | The Electronic Intifada