HAMAS IS BIDING IT'S TIME. That's according to an editorial in The Jerusalem Post:

Hamas is plainly playing for time and judging that Abbas cannot survive long in office. The Islamists, who already control many West Bank local councils, are betting on a further deterioration of Fatah control there and recognize Fatah's abiding unpopularity and disinclination to reform itself. In short, Ismail Haniyeh's Hamas government perceives its Fatah counterpart under Fayad to be lingering on borrowed time, and thus seeks to stave off economic debacle in Gaza in the short-term; hence its overtures to Fatah.

Getting millions from Fatah helped.
So do the noises from Great Britain on the need to talk with Hamas.

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