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Titolo: EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Abbas Will Offer Hamas Elections in January, Says Aide

Opperbacco: nuove elezioni e un governo neutrale fino al loro esito?
Non c'è di peggio che un Quisling deluso, a quanto pare.
 
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EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Abbas Will Offer Hamas Elections in January, Says Aide
Posted by Karl Vick Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 1:10 pm
 
When rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed to bury the 
hatchet in Cairo , the reconciliation pact promised two things: New 
elections by May 2012, and a caretaker government of technocrats to run 
the Palestinian Authority until then. That was more than five months 
ago, and ever since the two sides have been jammed up on the question of 
who should run the interim government. With no resolution in sight, 
Fatah chief and PA president Mahmoud Abbas is proposing to skip the 
caretaker part and go straight to elections, senior Abbas aide Nabil Abu 
Rudeineh tells TIME.
 
"We're suggesting January, because the law requires 90 days notice," 
says Abu Rudeineh. He adds that the proposal has been extended to Hamas 
informally but will not be officially on the table until Abbas meets 
with Hamas officials, probably early next month in Cairo. Both Abbas and 
Hamas chief Khaled Mashal will be in Egypt this week, but the Fatah 
chief, whose titles include chairman of the PLO, says the brief visit 
will be filled by meetings with the military leaders in Cairo. "I don't 
have time, only one night," Abbas says in an interview. "Maybe next 
time, by the beginning of next month."
 
If Hamas agrees, the stage will be set for an overhaul in Palestinian 
politics, and with it relations with Israel, the United States and a 
rapidly changing Middle East. The Palestinian Authority will almost 
certainly have a new president: Abbas, 76, has repeatedly insisted — to 
TIME as recently as last week — that he will not run for re-election, 
and has ordained no successor from the rolls of Fatah, the secular 
movement that long dominated Palestinian politics but is burdened with a 
reputation for corruption and incompetence. In fact the only previous 
time Fatah and Hamas faced off in elections, in January 2006 balloting 
for the Palestinian legislature, Hamas'surprise victory was regarded in 
no small part as a protest vote against Fatah's unresponsive reign.
 
But the Islamist party has problems of its own.  Analysts say it was 
widely viewed as the aggressor in the brief 2007 civil war that drove 
Fatah out of Gaza, a brutal internecine conflict that appalled 
Palestinians. With a boost from the Arab Spring, the public impatience 
with the ongoing rift  forced the reconciliation the two parties signed 
in Cairo last spring. Hamas also is burdened by low polls for its 
governance of Gaza, its longtime stronghold. As recently as March, a 
majority of Gazans said they supported "regime change."
 
The group got a significant boost this week, however, by winning freedom 
for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in exchange for Gilad 
Shalit, the young Israeli corporal Hamas held for five years after 
abducting him in a joint operation with other militant groups. The 
massive release stole the spotlight from Abbas, who just two weeks 
earlier was greeted as a conquering hero after defying President Obama 
at the United Nations by submitting an application for Palestinian 
statehood. His offer of elections may well burnish the U.N. application, 
as a statesman-like display of confidence in democracy. But the Shalit 
deal is structured to keep Hamas' success in the limelight: Roughly half 
the 1,027 were released Tuesday; the other half will be freed, amid 
similar hoopla, in two months.
 
(READ: Isolated and impoverished — why Hamas is losing in Gaza.)
 
New balloting would also give Palestinian a working legislature for the 
first time in years. The Palestinian Legislative Council elected in 2006 
and seated in Ramallah has not met since the split between Gaza and the 
West Bank a year later. During that time, Abbas (whose own term actually 
expired in 2009) has ruled by fiat, while each faction persecuted the 
other, with Israeli troops arresting some Hamas parliamentarians on the 
West Bank. In fact, how Israel would respond to a government that 
includes Hamas is one of the major uncertainties embedded in any new 
elections. When the reconciliation was announced, Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu tried to pour cold water on it, saying Israel would 
refuse to negotiate with a Palestinian government that included a 
faction committed to Israel's annihilation, as Hamas' charter states. 
But that statement may no longer be in effect after the Shalit deal, 
which was nothing if not a negotiation with Hamas.
 
Finally, the prospect of early elections casts a new light on Abbas' 
demand that Netanyahu make good on a promise by his predecessor as prime 
minister to release still more Palestinian prisoners in the wake of the 
Shalit deal.  Among more than 5,000 Palestinians still in Israeli 
prisons is one who polls consistently show winning the presidency of the 
Palestinian Authority — Marwan Barghouti. In some polls, the Fatah 
activist wins even if he runs from his cell.
 
Read more: 
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/10/20/exclusive-mahmoud-abbas-will-offer-hamas-elections-in-january-says-aide/#ixzz1bMLQoQY9
 
 
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 Non c'è di peggio che un Quisling 
 
Era deluso
Poi si è reinnamorato.
Ora è ripiombato nella delusione.
 
Persio. Un pirla emotivamente instabile.
 
 
 
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