Will Hamas Agree to a Negotiating Fatah-Hamas Government?
January 28, 2007
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Fatah says its willing to force Hamas to pay a price in blood to form a joint negotiated Palestinian Authority
government. Such a government might be able to negotiate with Israel to bring in a false peace.
Fatah and Hamas have escalated the growing conflict between them to gain control of the Palestinian Authority. The guns and financial help supplied to Fatah recently by the United States and Israel is apparently being used against Hamas.
In order to stop the fighting, it appears that Fatah is attempting to get Hamas to soften its extreme stance toward Israel, so that some sort of peace agreement can be made with Israel. If Abbas can get a joint Fatah-Hamas Palestinian Authority government agreement with Hamas, and Hamas will recognize Israel’s right to be in the land, some sort of peace plan could be worked out. It would be a false peace of relatively short duration on the part of Hamas and Fatah, but on the surface they would lead Israel to believe it was genuine.
The two DEBKAfile reports, which follow, show the escalation of the conflict between Hamas and Fatah, and the determination of Fatah to accomplish the aforementioned objectives.
Begin DEBKAfile Report Number 1
Fatah-Hamas battles in Gaza
leave 25 Palestinians dead, including children, 50 wounded since Thursday night
DEBKAfile
January 28, 2007, 12:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
The two factions have again broken off the talks on a coalition government which violent infighting has repeatedly interrupted since last year.
The last five victims were killed in clashes which swept Gaza all day Saturday.
Friday night, tit-for-tat rocket attacks were staged against the homes of Hamas foreign minister Mahmoud a-Zahar and head of the Fatah-oriented internal security service Rashid Abu Shbak. Neither was hurt.
Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades abductors threaten to kill Hamas captives in revenge for the murder of one of their leaders in Gaza Thursday night.
Begin DEBKAfile Report Number 2
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Fatah is willing to sustain 200 to 500 dead to prevail over Hamas in Gaza, Hamas Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshaal is warned
January 28, 2007, 12:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Abbas’ close associate, the Palestinian-Kurdish tycoon Mohammed Rashid, flew into Damascus Saturday night, Jan 27, with an ultimatum for Meshaal. During the day, Palestinian casualties from Hamas-Fatah factional battles rose to 25 with dozens of wounded.
Rashid told the Hamas leader that this was his last chance for a ceasefire. If he agreed, Abbas would return to the negotiating table and go back to the proposals they had discussed when they met in Damascus last week. If not, his Fatah forces were ready to sustain up to 500 dead to win control of Gaza.
Abbas lieutenant Mohammed Dahlan is commanding the Fatah side.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Saturday both factions turned their guns on each other’s senior commanders.
Fatah death squads stormed Hamas mosques, seized and executed three officers of Hamas’ special units. Hamas reciprocated by eliminating Fatah commanders.
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