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Friday, November 17, 2017
Abbas Intervenes to Save Reconciliation Ahead of Cairo Meeting

Abbas Intervenes to Save Reconciliation Ahead of Cairo Meeting
Thursday, 16 November, 2017 - 12:00
Ramallah - Kifah Ziboun, Asharq al-Awsat
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1085761/abbas-intervenes-save-reconciliation-ahead-cairo-meeting

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas intervened to stop repeated statements
described as offensive by Palestinian officials, regarding the internal
reconciliation with Hamas, in a move aimed at easing tension ahead of the
Cairo meeting later this month.

In line with Abbas’ instructions, the Fatah Central Committee has decided to
limit its statements to the members of the committee in charge with holding
dialogue with Hamas, in order to maintain efforts towards restoring national
unity and achieving reconciliation.

Palestinian officials have linked the success of reconciliation to Fatah’s
deploying its control over the Gaza Strip, while demanding the disarmament
of Hamas and rejecting any security quota. Those demands were fully rejected
by Hamas, whose officials went to attack the current Prime Minister Rami
al-Hamdallah.

Member of Hamas political bureau, Salah al-Bardawil, said on Wednesday that
his party did not wish Hamdallah to assume any future Palestinian
government.

“Dissolving the government of national reconciliation and forming a much
stronger unity cabinet has become an important demand for all factions and
even for a large group of the Fatah movement,” Bardawil stated.

Speaking to a local media station, the Hamas official also said: “Even after
the reconciliation, [the government] did not provide any new solution to the
citizens’ problem; but on the contrary, every day it issues negative
statements with indifference to the suffering of people in the Gaza Strip.”

There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian government on Bardawil’s
remarks. But well-informed sources in Fatah said his statements reflected
only his personal views.

“The formation of a unity government will not necessarily take place. This
is a decision to be made by the president,” the sources said.

The Fatah Central Committee, for its part, expressed in a statement its hope
for the success of the next round of meeting in Cairo on November 21.

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