{"id":3619,"date":"2014-05-11T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T06:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2014-05-11T06:05:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T06:05:58","slug":"pro-hamas-newspaper-back-on-sale-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/05\/11\/3619\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Hamas newspaper back on sale in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/hamas%20newspaper.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A pro-Islamist newspaper was sold in the West Bank on Saturday for the first time in seven years, another sign of a Palestinian unity pact that prompted Israel to suspend peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His Palestinian Authority (PA) permitted printers to roll out the tabloid, &#8220;Falasteen&#8221;, Arabic for Palestine, three days after Hamas Islamists in control of Gaza allowed a leading West Bank daily to be sold in their midst.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abbas&#8217;s Fatah movement and Hamas announced a unity pact on April 23, with the stated aim of forming a joint government in five weeks, angering Israel and spurring it to shelve already faltering peace talks soon after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hamas rejects Israel&#8217;s existence and both the Jewish state and United States regard the group as a terrorist organization. It seized Gaza from Fatah forces in a brief 2007 civil war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, which Palestinians loyal to Abbas now seek, along with Gaza and East Jerusalem, for an independent state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel captured all three areas in the 1967 Middle East war, but withdrew from Gaza in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Iyad Al-Qara, director general of Falesteen, said its reappearance in the West Bank was &#8220;a positive and important step towards pushing reconciliation forward.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The newspaper was last sold in the West Bank in 2007 when ties ruptured over Hamas&#8217;s bloody seizure of control in Gaza, while Fatah retained control in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al-Quds, the biggest-selling Palestinian daily in the West Bank, resumed sales in Gaza on Wednesday. The newspaper is printed in East Jerusalem and includes articles critical of a wide spectrum of political parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abbas met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Qatar earlier this week in a further step to bolster the latest of a series of efforts to heal the Palestinian political rift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deep mistrust and enmity have scuppered previous deals, with both sides struggling to reconcile Hamas&#8217;s commitment to fighting Israel with Abbas&#8217;s choice to negotiate with it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Alarabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-Islamist newspaper was sold in the West Bank on Saturday for the first time in seven years, another sign of a Palestinian unity pact that prompted Israel to suspend peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.<\/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-3619","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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