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[Paphitis]

Turkey's support for Hamas worries Palestinian Authority!

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

The Palestinian Authority is concerned about Turkey’s increased support for Hamas, a PA official in Ramallah said on Monday.

The official said that the PA leadership was “unhappy” with Turkey’s policy toward Hamas, especially with regard to pressure to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip unconditionally.


“Turkey’s policy is emboldening Hamas and undermining the Palestinian Authority,” the official told The Jerusalem Post.

“Of course we want to see the blockade lifted, but Hamas must also end its coup in the Gaza Strip and accept an Egyptian proposal for achieving reconciliation with Fatah.”

PA concerned about opening of the Rafah border

The PA is also concerned the reopening of the Rafah border crossing to Sinai would enable Hamas to tighten its grip on the Strip.

“We wish to remind the Turkish and Egyptian governments that the border crossing was controlled by the Palestinian Authority before Hamas launched its coup in 2007,” the official added. “If the Rafah border crossing is going to be reopened, that should be done in coordination with us and not with Hamas.”

Azzam al-Ahmed, a top Fatah official in the West Bank, was quoted over the weekend as saying that he was opposed to the lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip until Hamas agreed to end the dispute with his faction.

Ahmed stressed that there was no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip because the PA government was sending aid through Israeli border crossings.

Abbas visits Erdogan in Istanbul

PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who visited Istanbul on Monday, was said to have relayed to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan his concern over the rapprochement between Turkey and Hamas, the official revealed.

Erdogan, according to the official, offered to mediate between the PA and Hamas -an offer that Abbas accepted.

Erdogan declared that ending the power struggle between the rival Palestinian parties “is a must.” He claimed that Hamas had also welcomed a mediation role for Turkey.

Erdogan was speaking to reporters during a joint press conference with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who was also visiting Turkey.

“Divisions should not continue under the current circumstances,” Erdogan said. “I believe we can make peace between Hamas and Fatah.”

Hamas: PA depriving residents of the Gaza Strip of passports

Meanwhile, the Hamas government accused the PA of depriving residents of the Gaza Strip of passports. The government said the ban had been in effect since July 2008, effectively preventing tens of thousands of Palestinians from being able to travel abroad.

“The Fatah government in Ramallah does not care about the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip, who are already under siege,” a spokesman for the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Interior said. “Every citizen is entitled to a passport, and no one has the right to deprive people of getting passports for whatever reason.”

Palestinian passports are normally printed in the West Bank. Hamas said the PA was refusing, for “security reasons,” to send thousands of passports to residents of the Gaza Strip who needed to travel.

According to the Hamas government, many Palestinian academics and “respected” figures have been denied passports by the PA government for the same reason.

Jerusalem Post

http://agora-dialogue.com/?p=7142

[Get Real!]

News for uneducated Psoritis...


Hamas IS the democratically elected Palestinian authority!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00372.html

[denizaksulu]

Whats new. There has always been a power struggle between different palestinian factions.

[Paphitis]

News for uneducated Psoritis...


Hamas IS the democratically elected Palestinian authority!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00372.html

Please show your education for all to see Get Real!

Those were Parliamentary Elections ans NOT Presidential elections!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6739691.stm

And you can read about the Gamas Coup in 2007!

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp01062009.html

Dipstick!

[Paphitis]

Whats new. There has always been a power struggle between different palestinian factions.

The problem Denis is that the Palestinian Authority is concerned about Turkey's approach because they fear that Turkey will hinder its policy on peace and reconcilliation with Israel which will see autonomy for Gaza and the lifting of the blockade!

[Gasman]

Palestinian government and politics are a bit complicated.

The misery the Israeli blockade causes to ordinary Palestinians is not complicated.

The siding with Israel by some GCs and hoping for a war to break out (on the offchance that Israel will chuck out a small percentage of the total population of Turks from Cyprus) is not complicated either. It is disgusting.

[Paphitis]

Palestinian government and politics are a bit complicated.

The misery the Israeli blockade causes to ordinary Palestinians is not complicated.

The siding with Israel by some GCs and hoping for a war to break out (on the offchance that Israel will chuck out a small percentage of the total population of Turks from Cyprus) is not complicated either. It is disgusting.

No Gasman! No one said anything about chucking out any Turks!

Chucking out the Turkish Army is quite enough!

And yes, GCs will side with the nation that best suits its interests. If Israel and Turkey go to war, and I'm not saying this is likely at the moment, then the RoC's interests lie with Israel kicking the crap out of Turkey.

[halil]

Whats new. There has always been a power struggle between different palestinian factions.

The problem Denis is that the Palestinian Authority is concerned about Turkey's approach because they fear that Turkey will hinder its policy on peace and reconcilliation with Israel which will see autonomy for Gaza and the lifting of the blockade!

Turkey and Palestine signed an agreement to establish a joint committee on Monday.

Foreign ministers of the two countries signed the agreement, prior to the meeting between Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Head of the Palestinian State Mahmoud Abbas which is taking place on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Istanbul.

The agreement signed by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Palestinian counterpart Riyad El-Maliki aims to draw the framework of Turkey's aid and support to the Palestinian state.

The committee which will be co-chaired by the foreign ministers of the two countries is foreseen to convene at least twice every year, in order to determine areas of cooperation and lay down action plans.

Turkey will provide political consultation to Palestine, provide training to its diplomats and training in the areas technical cooperation. The committee also aims to increase investments in the areas of water resources and agriculture. It also aims to draw the cooperation in the fields of culture, education, health and science.

Under the agreement Turkey will provide more scholarships to Palestinian students in Turkish universities and support investments in Palestine for construction of schools and improvement of the existing education infrastructure. In the area of health, Turkey will share its know-how in the medical field.

Following the signing of the agreement, Gul and Abbas held a meeting which was closed to the press.

Turkey calls on Hamas, Fatah to unite for future

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Palestinian groups to end their divisions with a view to reach compromise between themselves.

"It is a must that Hamas and Al-Fatah solve their issues. Because at this time, they cannot afford divisions any more. They need to take lessons from the past and act willingly for peace," Erdogan told a joint press conference with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad in Istanbul.

Erdogan rejected labelling Hamas as a terrorist organization, saying that Hamas was the democratically elected group for power.

"But they did not allow them to remain in power and they were removed from power. It is impossible to understand the world's attitude on this issue," Erdogan said.

"The same people who once branded al-Fatah a terrorist group now see it as the representative of the Palestinians. The same people who called Yasser Arafat a terrorist later gave him a Nobel peace prize," Erdogan said.

Erdogan also rejected severely Israeli allegations that passengers of a ship with the Gaza-bound flotilla that came under a deadly Israeli attack included people with "known ties" to terrorist groups.

"They were no terrorists. If they were then why did the Israeli government let them return to their countries," Erdogan asked.


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[Get Real!]

News for uneducated Psoritis...


Hamas IS the democratically elected Palestinian authority!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00372.html

Please show your education for all to see Get Real!

Those were Parliamentary Elections ans NOT Presidential elections!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6739691.stm

And you can read about the Gamas Coup in 2007!

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp01062009.html

Dipstick!

Psoritis, you just don’t know enough about the issue to discuss it…

Abbas is a corrupt Israeli puppet who became “president” ONLY because most Palestinians boycotted the corrupt election while Israel was murdering and manipulating them!

Abbas continued and continues to this day to violate Palestinian laws in Israel’s favor to keep the Israeli-undesirable but democratically popular Hamas from power.

You need to read EVERYTHING to understand what’s happening so stick to picking your nose.

[Paphitis]

News for uneducated Psoritis...


Hamas IS the democratically elected Palestinian authority!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00372.html

Please show your education for all to see Get Real!

Those were Parliamentary Elections ans NOT Presidential elections!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6739691.stm

And you can read about the Gamas Coup in 2007!

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp01062009.html

Dipstick!

Psoritis, you just don’t know enough about the issue to discuss it…

Abbas is a corrupt Israeli puppet who became “president” ONLY because most Palestinians boycotted the corrupt election while Israel was murdering and manipulating them!

Abbas continued and continues to this day to violate Palestinian laws in Israel’s favor to keep the Israeli-undesirable but democratically popular Hamas from power.

You need to read EVERYTHING to understand what’s happening so stick to picking your nose.

Abbas is stil the only legitimate President! If some Palestinians boycotted the election does not mean that Hamas can forcefully remove him from office! If your logic is to hold any water, then on the same token, a radical US group is justified to in removing Barrack Obama because most Americans do not vote and boycott the election.

Go back to sleep! You don't know what your talking about!

Oh, I nearly forgot!