Palestinian Civil Society Watch - Shut Up. Nobody's Liquidating Anybody
Where do they even come up with this stuff?
Hamas leader Mashal, in Damascus, threatens to have Haniye liquidated if a unity government is established in the PA without terrorism and the right of return. Internal strife within Hamas - the internationally outlawed terrorist organization that took over the Palestinian Authority following elections earlier this year - has never been more intense. Hamas leaders in Gaza have all but agreed to form a unity government with Fatah, its older and externally more moderate sister, but the Damascus-based leadership doesn't like the idea at all.
Shut up. No one's going to have anybody else liquidated, unless it's Israel and they're too busy right now trying to figure out how to free prisoners and give away land. This is just a headfake so that Mashal can get more compromises out of Abbas during unity government negotiations (there are still one or two obligations to Israel that Hamas hasn't firmly said they will never, ever meet). "Liquidated". Where do they come up with this stuff?
Well, Abbas promised Livni that the new unity government (if it ever gets on the ground) will recognize Israel and fulfill past treaty obligations. So it looks like some bluffs are going to be called soon one way or another. Our best guess: there will be a unity government, it won't not recognize Israel but it won't recognize Israel, and no one in Hamas is going to kill anyone else in Hamas. Unless it's about like a sister's honor or a stolen car or something. Then people might die. Otherwise, no.
Livni and Abbas also apparently talked about Shalit. Or didn't, depending on who you ask. We do like how Livni is pressing for the "unconditional release of Gilad Shalit" at the same time that the Israeli government is negotiating over whether they have to release 800 prisoners or 1,000 prisoners to get him back.
Hamas leader Mashal, in Damascus, threatens to have Haniye liquidated if a unity government is established in the PA without terrorism and the right of return. Internal strife within Hamas - the internationally outlawed terrorist organization that took over the Palestinian Authority following elections earlier this year - has never been more intense. Hamas leaders in Gaza have all but agreed to form a unity government with Fatah, its older and externally more moderate sister, but the Damascus-based leadership doesn't like the idea at all.
Shut up. No one's going to have anybody else liquidated, unless it's Israel and they're too busy right now trying to figure out how to free prisoners and give away land. This is just a headfake so that Mashal can get more compromises out of Abbas during unity government negotiations (there are still one or two obligations to Israel that Hamas hasn't firmly said they will never, ever meet). "Liquidated". Where do they come up with this stuff?
Well, Abbas promised Livni that the new unity government (if it ever gets on the ground) will recognize Israel and fulfill past treaty obligations. So it looks like some bluffs are going to be called soon one way or another. Our best guess: there will be a unity government, it won't not recognize Israel but it won't recognize Israel, and no one in Hamas is going to kill anyone else in Hamas. Unless it's about like a sister's honor or a stolen car or something. Then people might die. Otherwise, no.
Livni and Abbas also apparently talked about Shalit. Or didn't, depending on who you ask. We do like how Livni is pressing for the "unconditional release of Gilad Shalit" at the same time that the Israeli government is negotiating over whether they have to release 800 prisoners or 1,000 prisoners to get him back.
