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Hong Kong (CNN)  — 

Palestinian factions including rivals Hamas and Fatah have signed an agreement on “ending division and strengthening Palestinian unity” in Beijing, China said Tuesday.

The announcement followed reconciliation talks hosted by China involving 14 Palestinian factions starting Sunday, according to China’s Foreign Ministry, which come as Israel wages war against militant group Hamas in Gaza and as Beijing has sought to present itself as a potential peace broker in the conflict.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the agreement was “dedicated to the great reconciliation and unity of all 14 factions.”

“The core outcome is that the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) is the sole legitimate representative of all Palestinian people,” Wang said, adding that “an agreement has been reached on post-Gaza war governance and the establishment of a provisional national reconciliation government.”

It was unclear from Wang’s comments what role Hamas, which is not part of the PLO, would play in such an arrangement, or what the immediate impact of any deal would be. The talks were held as the future governance of Palestinian territories remains in question following Israel’s repeated vow to eradicate Hamas in response to the group’s October 7 terrorist attack on its territory.

The PLO is a coalition of parties that signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1993, and formed a new government in the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Fatah dominates both the PLO and the PA, the interim Palestinian government that was established in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after the 1993 agreement known as the Oslo Accords was signed. Hamas was not party to the accords and does not recognize Israel.

Mustafa Barghouti, president of the Palestinian National Initiative, who was at the Beijing talks, said “all the parties” have agreed that they should join the PLO, and that the organization is the only legitimate representative of the Palestinians.

There is a long history of bitter enmity between Hamas and Fatah. The two sides have tried – and failed – multiple times to reach an agreement to unite the two separate Palestinian territories under one governance structure, with a 2017 agreement quickly folding in violence.

The PA held administrative control over Gaza until 2007, after Hamas won the 2006 legislative elections in the occupied territories and expelled it from the strip. Since then, Hamas has ruled Gaza and the PA governs parts of the West Bank.

Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo in October 2017 under pressure from the Arab states, led by Egypt. Under the deal, a new unity government was supposed to take administrative control of Gaza two months later, ending a decade of rivalry that began when Hamas violently evicted the Palestinian Authority from Gaza in 2007.

But the deal’s lofty aspirations quickly collapsed. When Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visited Gaza in March 2018, he was the target of an assassination attempt when a bomb detonated near his convoy. Hamdallah’s Fatah party immediately blamed Hamas for the attack.

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Greenblatt, like his colleagues at the consulate and the State Department, don’t understand what is happening because they think that the peace process is about negotiating. But that’s never been what the peace process has been about. If it were about negotiating then the Palestinians would have been held accountable for their breaches of every commitment they ever made to Israel. But they have never been held to account. Only Israel has been held to account. Indeed, Israel has been attacked despite the fact that it has upheld all of its commitments. Meantime, the Palestinians have never honored any of their commitments to Israel – or to the US. They never canceled or amended the PLO Charter that calls for Israel’s annihilation. They never ended their incitement to murder Israelis. They never ended their sponsorship or finance of terrorism. They never extradited terrorists who murdered Americans to the US to stand trial. They certainly never extradited terrorists to stand trial in Israel. Indeed, they have never recognized Israel’s right to exist. As far as the Palestinians are concerned, the peace process is a process of unconditional Israeli surrender to all of their terms. The role of the US as the sponsor of the peace process is to coerce Israel to make concessions that together will lead to its unconditional surrender. And for the better part of the past quarter century successive US administrations have played by the Palestinians’ rules. But then Trump showed up. When Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he took something away from the Palestinians. That has never happened before. And now, reports that the administration is considering holding the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA to the same definition of “refugee” as the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees means another Palestinian high card is in danger. If Trump carries out his threat, then the only Palestinians who will be eligible for refugee status will be the 20,000 Palestinians who left Israel between 1947 and 1949. In one fell swoop, Trump would wipe out the Palestinian demand to destroy Israel through mass immigration of five million foreign-born Arabs to its territory – in the framework of peace. In an interview with Fox News, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat was asked what the administration can do to placate the Palestinians’ anger and convince them to renew their contacts with Washington. Erekat said the only thing the US can do is cancel its recognition of Jerusalem. Meaning only unconditional American surrender to Palestinian demands will bring America back into the PLO’s good graces. (emphasis added)

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Can Toastmasters Ramallah stay politics-free?

Can Toastmasters Ramallah stay politics-free?

Author: Ari Plachta / Source: Public Radio International

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Ahmad Shami, one of the founders of Toastmasters Ramallah and currently a spokesperson for Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, speaks to the room about the importance of planning to achieve professional success at a Toastmasters meeting on July 23, 2018.

Ari Plachta/PRI

Laith Azzam, 19, is delivering a…

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The two groups signed a reconciliation deal two years ago which set in motion a plan for Abbas’s Palestinian Authority to resume governing in Gaza and take control of the coastal enclave’s crossing points into Egypt and Israel. https://i1.wp.com/www.vennomax.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Pal.jpg?fit=838%2C468&ssl=1 https://is.gd/RZqEwb - Vennomax

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Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Al-Hamdallah Resigns https://nigeriagossipz.blogspot.com/2019/01/palestinian-prime-minister-rami-al.html

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PM Palestina Rami Hamdallah Mundur dari Jabatannya

PM Palestina Rami Hamdallah Mundur dari Jabatannya

RAMALLAH | ACEHKITA.COM — Presiden Palestina Mahmoud Abbas telah menerima pengunduran diri Perdana Menteri Palestina Rami Hamdallah dan jajaran menteri di kabinetnya pada Selasa (29/1). Kendati demikian, Hamdallah masih ditunjuk sebagai pengurus hingga kabinet baru terbentuk.

Kantor berita Palestina WAFA telah mengonfirmasi kabar tersebut. Namun belum ada keterangan atau pernyataan resmi dari…

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Benyújtotta lemondását a Palesztin Hatóság kormánya

Benyújtotta lemondását a Palesztin Hatóság kormánya

Hivatalosan benyújtotta lemondását kedden Mahmúd Abbász palesztin elnöknek Rámi Hamdalláh, a Ciszjordániát irányító Palesztin Hatóság kormányfője és kormányának összes minisztere – jelentette a The Times of Israel című angol nyelvű izraeli honlap. 

“Rámi Hamdalláh és kormányának minden minisztere lemondott” – közölte Ahmad Sami, Hamdalláh egyik szóvivője a lappal, és hozzátette, hogy Mahmúd Abbász…

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"If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?" ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

"War By Numbers (Red)" by Shepard Fairey, 2007

Arty-Fact: “Tactics to create a climate of fear are nothing new. LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969] escalated U.S. military presence in Vietnam as soon as he took office. The irony is that as we worry about outside threats to our kids, we are creating a culture where it is fine to bomb kids from other countries like Vietnam or Iraq. The Iraqi civilian body count due to U.S. forces is between 56 and 62 thousand. No wonder there isn’t a lot of popular support in Iraq for the American versions of freedom and democracy. I feel just as bad for our troops who are being killed. Now we are mired in a civil war that is terrible for us and them. Try to keep in perspective that for every media image of a disabled U.S. veteran of the war in Iraq, there are 20 Iraqis who are in a similar or worse situation.” ~ Shepard Fairey, 2007; Source: Obey Giant

“War By Numbers” is Shepard Fairey’s reaction to the thought of being a part of a society that cultivates the justification of killing foreign innocent children, and people for that matter, to protect “our” [America] idea of freedom and democracy.

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Palestinian PM Unhurt After Gaza Explosion Which ‘Targets’ His Convoy The Palestinian Authority says Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has survived an assassination attempt in Gaza after an explosion near his convoy.

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Filistin’deki uzlaşının ardından Netanyahu’dan ilk açıklama Yerel basında çıkan haberlere göre Netanyahu, işgal altındaki Batı Şeria'da yer alan yasa dışı Yahudi yerleşim birimi Ma'ale Adumim'i ziyareti esnasında, Hamas ile Fetih arasında varılan uzlaşıyla ilgili açıklamalarda bulundu.

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Palestinian PM visiting Gaza to reconcile rival Fatah and Hamas groups after a 10-year rift

Palestinian PM visiting Gaza to reconcile rival Fatah and Hamas groups after a 10-year rift

Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah, is visiting Gaza as part of reconciliation efforts to reconcile rival Fatah and Hamas groups. Hamdallah expressed hope that he and his delegation can help unite the Palestinian factions after a 10-year rift. Fatah and Hamas have been at odds ever since a parliamentary election in 2006. Hamas governs the Gaza Strip, while Fatah has set up offices in the…

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Gaza: si riunisce il Governo palestinese si per la prima volta dal 2014

Il governo palestinese si è riunito questa mattina nella Striscia di Gaza per la prima volta dal 2014, segnando il ritorno dell'Autorità nazionale palestinese, riconosciuta a livello internazionale, sul territorio governato dal movimento islamico Hamas. Il Consiglio dei ministri ha, tra l'altro, l'obiettivo di mostrare i progressi realizzati nel processo di riconciliazione tra l'Anp e il movimento islamista, dopo un decennio di tensioni e contrasti interpalestinesi. Il primo ministro Rami Hamdallah e il suo governo sono giunti nella Striscia di Gaza, lunedì, dopo 10 anni di divisione tra la Cisgiordania e la Striscia di Gaza. Incontrando la folla, Hamdallah ha invitato le persone a sostenere gli sforzi di riconciliazione. Anche Nikolay Mladenov, l’inviato delle Nazioni Unite per il processo di pace in Medio Oriente, è arrivato ieri a Gaza, alla guida di una delegazione ONU per seguire l’assunzione delle responsabilità sulla Striscia di Gaza da parte del governo palestinese. Il primo ministro palestinese, Rami Hamdallah, lascerà Gaza questa sera mentre alcuni ministri rimarranno nella Striscia. Foto: askanews.it Click to Post

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PALESTINE POLITICS: Reconciliation: Rami Hamdallah Visits Gaza to Unite Fatah and Hamas

“We still have a lot of work to complete and a number of issues to work out,” senior Palestinian official aid, referring to the issue of employees and crossings. “If we can overcome the employees and crossings issues, then we will move on to the more complicated issue of security,” the official said. “No bartering or touching the weapons of the resistance,” Hamas deputy chief in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya said, stressing that he reserved for fighting Israel. “We will fight the occupation with all means of resistance until [it] is wiped away.”

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O pagamento de última hora de Obama por US $ 221 milhões congelado pela Trump

O #pagamento de última hora de #Obama por US $ 221 milhões congelado pela #Trump

Os palestinos dizem que o pagamento de última hora de Obama por US $ 221 milhões congelado pela Trump A Administração Trump informou a Autoridade Palestina de que está congelando a transferência de US $ 221 milhões, que foi silenciosamente autorizada pela administração Obama em suas horas finais em 20 de janeiro, uma fonte palestina disse ao Times de Israel. Autoridades dos EUA transmitiram ao…

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BY MICHAEL WILNER, TOVAH LAZAROFF

 FEBRUARY 2, 2019 00:57

WASHINGTON – The administration of US President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that it has ended security funding and training to the Palestinian Authority, claiming that Ramallah itself had requested that the aid be cut in order to circumvent the jurisdiction of US courts. The 14-year-old US Security Coordinator (USSC) mission and the $61 million the US provides annually, are perceived to be the cornerstone of an effective PA security service. But a new law passed with bipartisan support titled the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act, which came into force on Friday, exposed the PA to lawsuits in American courts from US citizens affected by Palestinian terrorist activity – if the PA continues accepting US financial assistance.

Already in December, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah informed the Trump administration that the Palestinians would no longer accept any US financial assistance, most of which had already been cut off, save for the security funds. PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat repeated that position on Thursday.

A US official confirmed that the era of US financial assistance to the PA has ended. Only the USSC mission that works with the Palestinian security forces will remain, but it will have only an advisory role, which would not involve funding to the authority.

“As of February 1, at the request of the Palestinian Authority, the United States ceased providing any assistance under the authorities specified in ATCA, in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jordan,” the official said on Friday.

The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act, a bipartisan-supported law passed in October, is a “carefully balanced approach to better ensure victims’ access to compensation, and hold supporters of terrorism accountable,” according to its principal author, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

“All USAID assistance in the West Bank and Gaza has ceased,” the official said. “So has US security assistance to the Palestinian Authority coming from the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) funding stream.

“The US Security Coordinator and his team continue to conduct a security cooperation-only mission. The USSC’s train and equip activities supported by the INL funding stream have ceased,” the official said.

Jason Greenblatt, a senior adviser to Trump and the administration’s point man on the Middle East peace process, slammed PA officials via Twitter on Friday for shedding what he characterized as crocodile tears on the loss of aid. A spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas responded to the aid cut by claiming it would “have a negative impact on all, create a negative atmosphere and increase instability.”

“Disingenuous,” Greenblatt tweeted in response. “This aid was cut (not just suspended) at the PA’s request because they didn’t want to be subject to US courts which would require them to pay US citizens killed by Palestinian terrorists when the PA was found guilty.”

“The PA has money for health/education– but must use their money wisely,” he continued. “Example: Stop rewarding terrorists who kill Israelis. That will save the PA a fortune. They can also work with the US and others to help improve their economy and need even less foreign aid.

Democratic aides on Capitol Hill confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that Palestinian officials had denied overtures for a resolution to the crisis, preferring an aid cut to potential legal exposure and the press that would follow.

“There is an active effort to try and preserve the security cooperation funds from both sides, but with varying approaches,” one congressional aide working on the matter told the Post. “There was an effort to get it in the year-end omnibus [spending bill], which obviously failed.”

The aide explained that a renewal of aide would have to come either in the form of an independent, bipartisan agreement, or an attachment to must-pass legislation, such as the upcoming spending bill.

Israel has been particularly concerned that the end of US funding for Palestinian security services would impact IDF-Palestinian security coordination. Although both security services have direct lines of communication, the USSC mission had also acted as a liaison. It’s presumed that it would continue to do so in its new advisory role.

But Israel’s call for continued US funding has maintained bipartisan support.

“There’s a widespread acknowledgment that it is not in anyone’s interest to see security cooperation end – it’s a question of how to proceed,” the aide added.

A State Department official said that the government was beginning to roll back operations affected by the aid cut, but another source said that the administration remains open to re-instituting the program with PA cooperation.

That, at the moment, does not seem to be in the offing. Greenblatt quipped that aides to both Trump and Abbas are indeed communicating, after over a year of frozen ties following Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“The only difference now is that we are speaking about these matters in public via Twitter,” Greenblatt said, “so the public can understand everyone’s positions. Transparency is better for all.”