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Saturday 19 January 2013 - 10:04

Hams-Fatah unity deal countdown to Israel’s collapse

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File photo shows a meeting between acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas from the Fatah party and Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal in Cairo.
File photo shows a meeting between acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas from the Fatah party and Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal in Cairo.
“Under the circumstances that Hamas and Fatah have had positive achievements regarding war against the Zionist regime [Israel], reconciliation between these two groups will mean the countdown to the Zionists’ fall,” Ramezan Shojaei Kiasari said on Friday.
 
Despite ups and downs in ties between Hamas and Fatah during recent years, they should make great efforts to speed up the trend of building national unity, he added.
 
The Iranian legislator emphasized that Islamic Awakening can encourage both sides to reach a constant and lasting agreement and accelerate efforts to end their previous conflicts.
 
He noted that a comprehensive agreement to reach national unity and establish a new political structure for Palestine can be regarded as a “positive and fruitful” development for the Palestinian people.
 
    Shojaei Kiasari said that the Israeli regime has always used the disagreements between Palestinian groups to promote its own unilateral and aggressive measures, adding unity among Palestinians would be an obstacle to its moves.
 
 
Hamas and Fatah agreed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Thursday to revive their unity deal, stalled for two years, by the end of January.
 
The Cairo talks followed the January 9 meeting between the acting Palestinian Authority Chief, Mahmoud Abbas, from the Fatah party and the Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, in Cairo.
 
In 2011, Hamas and Fatah signed a unity deal, which has not yet been implemented. The agreement was designed to lay the groundwork for the formation of a transitional government ahead of last year’s legislative election. But the process was halted.
 
Hamas and Fatah have been at odds since Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in the Gaza Strip in January 2006.
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