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**جيش الضفة** · 21/02/2006, 01:37 AM

رد : Fatah may join a Hamas-led government.

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Abbas hints Fatah might join Hamas government

By Reuters and Haaretz Service

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that his Fatah faction would be prepared under certain conditions to join the new Palestinian government headed by Hamas.

This is the first time since the January elections that Abbas has publicly declared that Fatah was considering to join the new government.

"Fatah has still not decided whether to be outside the government," said Abbas.

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"The Fatah bloc in parliament will engage with whomever is tasked with forming the government in a dialogue that will include all of the topics on the agenda. If there is a mutual basis, Fatah will join the government for the sake of the Palestinian interest," Abbas said.

Abbas said that if Hamas forms the new government, it would have to change its positions.

"There are many commitments the Authority cannot back away from, and if it does so, it will forfeit international legitimacy," he said. "The brothers in Hamas know this. We cannot be a state and say that we are not committed to the international principles. The world will be against us. There is no avoiding the Hamas voicing its views to the world and likewise hearing the world's positions."Fatah has so far not announced its intention to join the government, and there are serious differences of opinion on this matter within the organization. Some are opposed to joining the government, while others are in favor of joining under certain conditions.

Abbas met on Monday at the presidential compound in Gaza with Hamas leaders, including prime minister-deignate, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mahmoud A-Zahar.

Abbas will formally ask Haniyeh on Tuesday to form a government, leaders of the Islamic group said on Monday after meeting Abbas.

Haniyeh will have up to five weeks to put together an administration, which Abbas has said should recognize past peace deals with Israel and commit itself to pursuing statehood through negotiations.

"The official request will be made tomorrow in the evening in a direct meeting with (Abbas), when we will receive the official accreditation to form the next government," Haniyeh, one of the Hamas men who held talks with Abbas on Monday, told reporters.

Once Abbas makes the official request, 43-year-old Haniyeh, a Hamas leader viewed by many Palestinians as a pragmatist, will have up to five weeks to form an administration.

Hamas looking for coalition partners
Earlier, Hamas held talks with militant factions, one of which, Islamic Jihad, declined to join up.

In a speech to the new parliament on Saturday, Abbas appealed to a future Hamas government to recognise past peace deals with Israel and commit itself to pursuing statehood through talks but stopped short of setting conditions for forming a cabinet.

Hamas swiftly rejected Abbas's call, but neither the group nor the president appeared ready for an immediate showdown.

Hamas opened formal talks in Gaza on Monday with other militant factions in a bid to form a new Palestinian government by early next month.

Hamas said its goal was to establish as broad a coalition as possible as it faced a cut off in vital tax funds from Israel and a threatened boycott by major powers if it refused to renounce violence and recognize Israel.

The radical Islamic Jihad movement, responsible for dozens of suicide bombings in Israel, turned down the invitation.

"We will not participate in the government but we will stand beside Hamas in the project of resistance to protect the interests of our people," Islamic Jihad leader Nafez Azzam told reporters after talks with Hamas officials.

A Hamas delegation also met with leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a left-wing radical group.

Talks were also scheduled with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the group was trying to
form "the largest national coalition possible" by early next month.

Salah al-Bardaweel, spokesman for Hamas's parliamentary
bloc, said Hamas would officially present Abbas with its choice for prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh.

It was unclear whether Hamas would succeed in bringing all of the other militant groups into the coalition.

Senior PFLP leader Jamil al-Majdalawi was also noncommittal as he entered the talks with the head of Hamas's parliamentary bloc, Mahmoud al-Zahar.

"We are not talking about conditions. We are going to talk
to Hamas about finding common ground for a program to form a national coalition government," he said
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**جيش الضفة** · 21/02/2006, 01:42 AM

رد : Fatah may join a Hamas-led government.

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واظنه سوف يستلم الرد عندما يسلم الورقة الرسمية لاسماعيل هنية لتشكيل الحكومة .

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