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May 15th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have announced that they have set a three-month timetable to form a unity government and hold elections.
The announcement comes after a meeting late Tuesday at the
Egyptian security services headquarters in Cairo between Azzam
al-Ahmed, the Fatah official in charge of reconciliation affairs,
and Mussa Abu Marzuq, his Hamas counterpart.
“We must take immediate steps to agree on the Palestinian
National Council’s [PLO parliament] electoral law and set a date
for elections. We have said these measures must be carried out
within three months,” Ahmed told Voice of Palestine radio.
His words were echoed by Sami Abu Zohri, a Hamas spokesman, who
told AFP that both factions had decided to “finalize all
reconciliation issues in three months, including that of the
national unity government.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in April that he would
renew consultations with the Hamas movement, after the resignation
of Prime Minster Salam Fayyad, who had served since 2007.
The two movements signed a reconciliation deal in Cairo in 2011,
which was meant to have paved the way for legislative and
presidential elections within 12 months.
But the implementation of the Cairo agreement stalled over the
make-up of the interim government. A second agreement signed by
Abbas and Khaled Masha’al, the political bureau chief of Hamas, in
Doha, Qatar in February 2012, was opposed by Hamas members in
Gaza.
The resignation of Fayyad in April opens up the possibility of a
joint government; Hamas had never recognized his authority, instead
pushing forward their own Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.
Reconciliation between Fatah, which controls the West Bank, and
Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, is seen by many as an important
prerequisite for securing peace between Israel and Palestine, since
a lack of a unified government prevented any meaningful dialogue
between the parties.
However, there are considerable differences between Hamas and
Fatah. Hamas is committed to violence and refuses to acknowledge
Israel’s right to exist.
Hamas’ charter sates that “There is no solution to the
Palestinian problem except by jihad” and that “the land of
Israel is forfeit to Islam forever.”
Fatah on the other hand signed the Oslo peace accords with
Israel in 1993, which accepted the right of Israel to exist.
Hamas’ terms of reconciliation with Fatah have been that the PA
cease security co-operation with Israel in the West Bank, and they
also want control of key ministries currently dominated by Fatah,
such as the Ministry of Interior. Hamas have also said that no
change is made to their security services in Gaza.
Amal Hamad, a member of the Fatah Central Committee from Gaza,
told the Jerusalem Post on Monday that Hamas was not serious about
achieving reconciliation with Fatah.
“Hamas is interested in maintaining its Islamic emirate in
the Gaza Strip, Hamas does not want to end the conflict with
Fatah,” she said.
She also accused the Islamist organization of cracking down on
Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip, noting that more than 30 Fatah
activists have been summoned for interrogation in the past 24 hours
by Hamas.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/fatah-hamas-unity-government-319/
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