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“In a blow to Palestinian unity efforts, a meeting in Cairo planned for this week so that the leaders of the two main factions could announce a new government has been called off for lack of agreement on a prime minister, Palestinian officials said Sunday. The meeting had been set for Tuesday with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and Khaled Meshal of Hamas. Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction announced the cancellation in the West Bank, and Hamas officials here confirmed it……Mr. Abbas has been pushing hard to keep in place Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who is widely admired in the United States and Europe………” Mr. Salam Fayyadh (his name means Overflowing Peace in English) may be “widely admired in the USA and Europe”, but he is not widely admired where it counts, among the Palestinian people. Nor was he elected to any position. Should the Palestinians give a “fick” who admires whom in the “international community”? Absolutely not. The “international community” also professed admiration for Mubarak and Bin Ali and Saleh until the end, as they have for the absolute tribal despots in Riyadh and Manama.
I wrote here at the time that the Palestinian “unity” deal will most likely not last. It will not happen until there are new elections and all parties abide by the results: that means whoever wins the elections, Hamas or Fatah or Likud or Shas, will form the Palestinian “government”. Like all Arab parties and regimes, whoever loses the election will not accept the results. Haven’t we seen this Palestinian film before?
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mhg


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