{"id":1524,"date":"2011-05-05T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2011-05-05T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:56:36","slug":"palestinians-turn-black-page-of-rift-and-proclaim-landmark-reconciliation-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/05\/05\/1524\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians turn \u2018black page\u2019 of rift and proclaim landmark reconciliation pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"palestinians_pact\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/palestinians_pact.jpg\" height=\"175\" width=\"228\" \/>Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have proclaimed a landmark, Egypt-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift.<br \/>The ceremony took place Wednesday at the Egyptian intelligence headquarters in Cairo, according to The Associated Press.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Authority said the accord ends \u201cfour black years\u201d that hurt national Palestinian interests. He also said at the ceremony that he would soon visit Hamas-held Gaza Strip.<br \/> \u201cThe Palestinians have decided to turn the dark page of division forever,\u201d Mr. Abbas said as he joined Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal at the Cairo reconciliation ceremony.<br \/> \u201cWe are certain of success so long as we&#8217;re united &#8230; Reconciliation clears the way not only to putting the Palestinian house in order but also to a just peace,\u201d said President Abbas, according to Agence-France Presse.<br \/>He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must now \u201cchoose between (building) settlements and peace,\u201d and accused Israel of opposing the Palestinian reconciliation accord as \u201ca pretext to avoid peace negotiations.\u201d<br \/>President Abbas was countering Mr. Netanyahu&#8217;s insistence that his Palestinian Authority need to choose between unity with Hamas, which does not recognize Israel, and peace with the Jewish state.<br \/>Abbas has refused to resume peace talks with Israel until it restores a moratorium on all settlement construction on occupied territory which the Palestinians want for their promised state.<br \/>Hamas chief Meshaal said that his movement would work to achieve the \u201cPalestinian national goal\u201d of a sovereign state on the Gaza Strip and West Bank.<br \/>The Islamist group \u201conly fight is with Israel,\u201d Mr. Meshaal said. He pledged that Hamas would work to achieve a sovereign state in Gaza and the West Bank.<br \/>The pact provides for the creation of a joint caretaker Palestinian government ahead of national elections next year.<br \/>Negotiations on the new government line-up were due to start straight after Wednesday\u2019s ceremony, according to AFP.<br \/>The accord also calls for the creation of an electoral tribunal and for the release of a number of prisoners held by the rival movements in jails in the West Bank and Gaza.<br \/>Among the first tasks to be tackled would be also the establishment of a higher security council tasked with examining ways to integrate Hamas and Fatah\u2019s rival security forces and create a professional security service.<br \/>In Gaza City, around 300 people waving Palestinian flags gathered in a festive atmosphere to celebrate the deal, dancing and letting off firecrackers.<br \/> \u201cPalestinians want to end the division,\u201d said one banner held aloft by the crowd.<br \/>Many participants waved the green flag of Hamas, and a few also raised the yellow flag of the Fatah movement, which has been banned in Gaza ever since the Islamists ousted Fatah loyalists from the territory four years ago.<br \/> \u201cThis is the day that we\u2019ve all been waiting for,\u201d an announcer shouted to the cheering crowd.<br \/>Support rallies were also planned in the West Bank town of Ramallah, where Mr. Abbas has his headquarters.<br \/>But Israel responded angrily, threatening to withhold the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues until it could be sure no money would go to Hamas.<br \/>Ahead of his London talks, Mr. Netanyahu told Britain\u2019s former premier Tony Blair, now a Middle East peace envoy for the major diplomatic players, that Mr. Abbas must \u201ccompletely cancel\u201d the reconciliation deal which he said had dealt a \u201chard blow to the peace process.\u201d<br \/>The reconciliation deal marks a diplomatic coup for Egypt\u2019s new government, 11 weeks after President Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down in a popular revolt.<br \/>Cairo had tried for more than a year to mediate between Fatah and Hamas but its efforts fell flat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Arabiya<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have proclaimed a landmark, Egypt-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift.The ceremony took place Wednesday at the Egyptian intelligence headquarters in Cairo, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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