Re: NEW Sticky: Israel and Gaza - The Saga Continues! (MERGED)
Not that there was any doubt, but this article reconfirms who is actually running and controlling events in Gaza for the Pallys....
....they like to scream and cry about the US having no "respect" for their democratically elected Hamas gov't - yet at the same time refuse to acknowledge that it is the unelected Hamas godfather sitting in Damascus that actually calls all the shots
last update - 15:30 09/07/2006
Abbas sends PLO envoys to Hamas leader Meshal in Syria
By Amos Harel, Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff, Aluf Benn and Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735948.html
Not that there was any doubt, but this article reconfirms who is actually running and controlling events in Gaza for the Pallys....
....they like to scream and cry about the US having no "respect" for their democratically elected Hamas gov't - yet at the same time refuse to acknowledge that it is the unelected Hamas godfather sitting in Damascus that actually calls all the shots
last update - 15:30 09/07/2006
Abbas sends PLO envoys to Hamas leader Meshal in Syria
By Amos Harel, Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff, Aluf Benn and Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday dispatched two PLO envoys to Syria, to meet with exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal.
The envoys were reportedly sent to discuss the crisis with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The Damascus-based Meshal has so far declined to tone down Hamas' militant stance over the crisis that began with the abduction of an Israel Defense Forces soldier, which led to the IDF current ground operation in Gaza to free Corporal Gilad Shalit and halt Qassam rocket fire against Israeli targets.
....... Relations between Abbas and Meshal have soured over the past few months, after the Hamas leader insinuated in a speech that Abbas acts on behalf of Israel and the United States. In the speech, Meshal also indirectly accused the PA chairman of attempting to topple the Hamas government.
The envoys were reportedly sent to discuss the crisis with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The Damascus-based Meshal has so far declined to tone down Hamas' militant stance over the crisis that began with the abduction of an Israel Defense Forces soldier, which led to the IDF current ground operation in Gaza to free Corporal Gilad Shalit and halt Qassam rocket fire against Israeli targets.
....... Relations between Abbas and Meshal have soured over the past few months, after the Hamas leader insinuated in a speech that Abbas acts on behalf of Israel and the United States. In the speech, Meshal also indirectly accused the PA chairman of attempting to topple the Hamas government.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735948.html
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