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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to reports, the head of Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal met on Wednesday to discuss the implementation of a reconciliation deal signed in Egypt in May.
The agreement calls for the establishment of an interim government of independents led by Abbas to prepare the ground for presidential elections within a year.
“The atmosphere was positive… We got off to good start, and we are on the path of reconciliation,” Abbas told reporters after the meeting.
Meshaal said that the two sides were “taking solid steps to implement the reconciliation” and that the mood of the talks was ‘positive.’
The two sides have been at odds since Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006, which were lauded as the freest and fairest polls ever held in the Arab world. The dispute marginalized Hamas’ governance to the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip.
Earlier this month, the two factions selected Abbas as the head of the caretaker government in a deal brokered by Qatar.
The two leaders are also scheduled to attend two rounds of meetings with the leaders of all Palestinian factions during Thursday and Friday.
Israel and the United States have expressed concern about closer ties between Fatah and Hamas and are against the formation of any unity government that includes Hamas.
Abbas has said that the stalemate in talks with Israel has drived him to pursue internal Palestinian reconciliation.
Direct talks between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is likewise led by Abbas, were stalled around three weeks after they had resumed in the US in September 2010 due to Tel Aviv’s refusal to extend a partial freeze on its illegal settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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