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Hamas under pressure to compromise as deadline looms
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya visits the ministry of finance in Gaza City. Ruling party Hamas came under mounting pressure to accept a national unity deal as moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas prepared to deliver on a threat to put it to a referendum.(AFP/Samuel Aranda)
by Nasser Abu Bakr and Hossam Ezzedine
Jun 4, 2006
Yahoo News
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Ruling party Hamas came under mounting pressure to accept a national unity deal as moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas prepared to deliver on a threat to put it to a referendum.
The document, drawn up by jailed faction leaders, calls for a national unity government and a Palestinian state on land conquered by Israel in 1967, which if accepted by Hamas would entail an implicit recognition of the Jewish state's right to exist within the borders set by 1949 armistice agreements.
The initiative is the centrepiece of a national dialogue seeking to end a fiscal crisis and solve deadly feuding between Hamas and Abbas's Fatah movement that has left 11 people dead.
With the deadline set for an agreement looming in just over 24 hours and no firm agreement from Hamas in sight, Abbas was quoted as saying that with no positive answer from the Islamists he would act on his referendum threat.
"I hope we will have a positive answer but even if we don't have this positive answer, we will go to the referendum," Saleh Rafat quoted the Palestinian leader as telling a meeting with factions in Ramallah.
Rafat, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said that without agreement from Hamas, Abbas would deliver a formal statement on Tuesday.
A Fatah dialogue delegate earlier told a news conference that Abbas was already preparing the groundwork for a referendum.
"Abbas must be ready to hold a referendum because the deadline will end tomorrow at midnight (2100 GMT). We hope we will receive a positive answer from Hamas, but if not there will be a referendum," Azzam al-Ahmed said.
He said Abbas had recently met the central elections committee, been in contact with foreign governments and formed a law committee, before another scheduled meeting with the elections committee on Monday.
"PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) central committee will meet on Tuesday to set the procedure for referendum," said Ahmed, should the deadline pass without agreement from Hamas.
Two delegates dispatched by Abbas to extract the Islamists' final decision were expected to meet Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya later Sunday.
But Haniya has so far kept his position on a referendum ambiguous, saying that a plebiscite would be illegal but that it merited "serious" study.
"From a legal point of view, the basic law and observations from practitioners of law and international law do not allow the holding of a referendum on Palestinian soil," he told a news conference.
But "from a political point of view, the holding of a referendum necessitates serious studies", he added.
Both Hamas and its smaller rival Islamic Jihad have so far refused to accept the document, which officials say has been endorsed by all other parties taking part in the national dialogue.
Abbas on May 25 gave factions a 10-day deadline to accept the jailed leaders' proposals or face a referendum on the blueprint.
"The only way forward for us, if the dialogue fails, is the referendum," Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP.
After a first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the feuding Palestinian factions to set aside their differences for the sake of the national interest.
"I ask our Palestinian brothers, Fatah and Hamas, to solve their problems. If these problems continue, they will be too busy for the peace process," he told a joint news conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The Islamists have refused to cave into massive global pressure to make a formal declaration, although any acceptance of the prisoners' proposal by Hamas could entail implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist.
Recognition of the Jewish state, along with acceptance of past agreements and a renunciation of violence are key demands imposed by the international community and Israel for resuming aid payments to the Palestinian Authority.
Editorial:
Israeli Squatters, Go Home!
by Housewife4Palestine
Israel made their bed when they went beyond the original land allegations of 1948, which was just theft on their part. The Israeli government believes in nothing but Palestinian blood, no real peace. They had their chances to many time in 58 years and to treat the Palestinian people in such humiliating disgust all of those 58 years.
Their should have never been a State of Israel to begin with, they are a plague to the Middle East and for them to be recognized is only to give the vaccine to remove said plague, otherwise as far as many Palestinians are concerned, Israel eat Palestinian dirt then just go back to Europe where you came from!
No State of Israel, you are just squatters on Palestinian land!
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya visits the ministry of finance in Gaza City. Ruling party Hamas came under mounting pressure to accept a national unity deal as moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas prepared to deliver on a threat to put it to a referendum.(AFP/Samuel Aranda)
by Nasser Abu Bakr and Hossam Ezzedine
Jun 4, 2006
Yahoo News
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Ruling party Hamas came under mounting pressure to accept a national unity deal as moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas prepared to deliver on a threat to put it to a referendum.
The document, drawn up by jailed faction leaders, calls for a national unity government and a Palestinian state on land conquered by Israel in 1967, which if accepted by Hamas would entail an implicit recognition of the Jewish state's right to exist within the borders set by 1949 armistice agreements.
The initiative is the centrepiece of a national dialogue seeking to end a fiscal crisis and solve deadly feuding between Hamas and Abbas's Fatah movement that has left 11 people dead.
With the deadline set for an agreement looming in just over 24 hours and no firm agreement from Hamas in sight, Abbas was quoted as saying that with no positive answer from the Islamists he would act on his referendum threat.
"I hope we will have a positive answer but even if we don't have this positive answer, we will go to the referendum," Saleh Rafat quoted the Palestinian leader as telling a meeting with factions in Ramallah.
Rafat, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said that without agreement from Hamas, Abbas would deliver a formal statement on Tuesday.
A Fatah dialogue delegate earlier told a news conference that Abbas was already preparing the groundwork for a referendum.
"Abbas must be ready to hold a referendum because the deadline will end tomorrow at midnight (2100 GMT). We hope we will receive a positive answer from Hamas, but if not there will be a referendum," Azzam al-Ahmed said.
He said Abbas had recently met the central elections committee, been in contact with foreign governments and formed a law committee, before another scheduled meeting with the elections committee on Monday.
"PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) central committee will meet on Tuesday to set the procedure for referendum," said Ahmed, should the deadline pass without agreement from Hamas.
Two delegates dispatched by Abbas to extract the Islamists' final decision were expected to meet Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya later Sunday.
But Haniya has so far kept his position on a referendum ambiguous, saying that a plebiscite would be illegal but that it merited "serious" study.
"From a legal point of view, the basic law and observations from practitioners of law and international law do not allow the holding of a referendum on Palestinian soil," he told a news conference.
But "from a political point of view, the holding of a referendum necessitates serious studies", he added.
Both Hamas and its smaller rival Islamic Jihad have so far refused to accept the document, which officials say has been endorsed by all other parties taking part in the national dialogue.
Abbas on May 25 gave factions a 10-day deadline to accept the jailed leaders' proposals or face a referendum on the blueprint.
"The only way forward for us, if the dialogue fails, is the referendum," Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP.
After a first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the feuding Palestinian factions to set aside their differences for the sake of the national interest.
"I ask our Palestinian brothers, Fatah and Hamas, to solve their problems. If these problems continue, they will be too busy for the peace process," he told a joint news conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The Islamists have refused to cave into massive global pressure to make a formal declaration, although any acceptance of the prisoners' proposal by Hamas could entail implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist.
Recognition of the Jewish state, along with acceptance of past agreements and a renunciation of violence are key demands imposed by the international community and Israel for resuming aid payments to the Palestinian Authority.
Editorial:
Israeli Squatters, Go Home!
by Housewife4Palestine
Israel made their bed when they went beyond the original land allegations of 1948, which was just theft on their part. The Israeli government believes in nothing but Palestinian blood, no real peace. They had their chances to many time in 58 years and to treat the Palestinian people in such humiliating disgust all of those 58 years.
Their should have never been a State of Israel to begin with, they are a plague to the Middle East and for them to be recognized is only to give the vaccine to remove said plague, otherwise as far as many Palestinians are concerned, Israel eat Palestinian dirt then just go back to Europe where you came from!
No State of Israel, you are just squatters on Palestinian land!
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