Fatah and Hamas make it official
So can we now officially start the Civil War Watch? Hamas on Sunday rejected their Palestinian rival Fatah's nomination for the next prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, the Associated Press reported. Hamas has said in the past that they expect the prime minister to come from Gaza, effectively ruling out Fayyad.I know. Maybe Fatah can nominate Mohamed Dahlan instead. He used to live in Gaza. He even headed up Fatah's security apparatus there until Hamas deposed him.
"Hamas will not agree to grant Salam Fayyad the confidence to run the national unity government," Hamas official Salah Bardawil told the AP.
The latest - but not the first - rejection of Fayyad by Hamas comes just hours after Fatah announced its nomination of current PA Prime Minister Fayyad to remain prime minister in the new unity government with Hamas. Under the reconciliation agreement signed last month, both parties are supposed to nominate candidates to make up the unity government and then agree to its makeup.
Fatah representative Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the team that hammered out the original unity deal, told the AFP on Saturday, "The two sides will meet this Tuesday to form a government and we hope that this will be the last round of talks needed to finalize the make-up of the government."
However, Hamas’s insistence on excluding Fayyad is now the major obstacle to the formation of the government, a different senior Fatah official in Ramallah said last week.
Heh.
Labels: Abu Mazen, Fatah, Hamas, Hamas-Fatah reconciliation, Mohamed Dahlan, Salam Fayyad
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:29 PM
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Fatah just kicked out Mohammed Dahlan. At the rate things are going the Palestinians will be still arguing over who should be the Prime Minister of the non-existent unity government of a fictional state.
And to think of all the needless panic in Israel over the alleged September tsunami. Not to worry - the Palestinians are showing the world they aren't qualified to set up a government much less than to run a state.
What could go wrong indeed
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