Fatá and Hamas reconcile

Them factions Palestinian rival Fatá and Hamas gave yesterday Thursday an important step towards its reconciliation, to el announce this last that will enter to the Organization for the liberation Palestinian.

The agreement to support the militia extremists to the PLO, which for two decades has overseen the peace talks with Israel and is dominated by the Fatá, could have profound repercussions.

Hamas is opposed to the peace talks and rejected the right of Israel to exist. If the Group has a strong voice within the PLO could further complicate the difficult process to achieve peace in the Middle East.

The Israeli authorities were alarmed about the new agreement. Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, and since then the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, who also heads the Fatá, has only ruled West Bank.

The division between the two has been an obstacle in the efforts to achieve peace with Israel, since u000aAbbas does not speak on behalf of all Palestinians

A total reconciliation could fix that, but could also put Hamas in charge. The Islamist group won a parliamentary election in 2006, and both Israel and the West rejected a brief Government formed by Hamas with the Fatá, which froze the peace efforts. Under the agreement, the Supreme Leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, became part of a Committee to prepare the elections of the Parliament of the PLO in exile

Will work with Abbas. "Reconciliation has taken off." "It could take time, but have begun", said Azzam al - Ahmed., a senior official of the Fatá.

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"reconciliation has taken off." "It could take time, but have begun", said Azzam Al - Ahmed, a senior official of the Fatá, after talks in Cairo.

Elections clear the ground for Hamas to become a full member of the Agency u000aand get a significant voice in its decision-making decisions.

Any choice in the PLO is probably distant only by the required logistics. The organization represents all Palestinians, so the vote would have to take into account people scattered around the world, as the residents of refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

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