The primary purpose of the Palestinian unity agreement this week was internal Palestinian unity. But Palestinian security also depends on the lifting of the economic blockade they have been under since the election of the Hamas government. In the short term, this agreement is not going to change the stances of the main actors in [...]
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Palestinian Unity: Progress and Pitfalls, Part 2
Posted in Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine, United States on February 11, 2007 | 24 Comments »
Palestinian Unity: Progress and Pitfalls, Part 1
Posted in Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine on February 11, 2007 | 12 Comments »
The preliminary deal struck in Mecca this week for a Palestinian unity government was greeted with a good deal of fanfare and a lot of questions. First and foremost among those questions was whether the deal would be “acceptable” to Israel and the United States and be adequate to lift the economic blockade those two [...]
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