Abbas Effort To Get UN Recognition Is A Political Scam--According To Hamas

It's really nice to see the two sides of the Arab "Unity Government" get along so well together, isn't it?

What is everyone else supposed to think if Fatah's partners in Hamas think UN recognition of a Palestinian state is a joke:

Hamas leaders have firm views on the attempt by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to get the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, before Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan.


"Just nonsense," says Mahmoud al-Zahar, a prominent Hamas member in Gaza. "A Palestinian state means land, people and authority. And now, what is the border of Israel? Israel has had many borders in the last 30, 40 years. What border are we going to speak about?'"

The approach to the UN, he says, is a 'political scam.'

Hamas also rejects the idea of Fayyad continuing as Prime Minister.

If the 2 things that Fatah most has going for it in terms of world recognition and acceptance--UN recognition of a Palestinian state and the economic rehabilitation by Salam Fayyad--are being rejected by Hamas, how is Fatah supposed to go through with this unity deal without seriously lowering its stature?

If Hamas is seriously trying to dissolve the unity government before it begins--what happened to convince them that they don't need Fatah?

Or does Hamas have reason to believe that Fatah needs them more than they need Fatah, and that Fatah will make the demanded concessions.

Maybe Hamas just needed cover to make it look like they were part of the whole Arab Spring process, and now doesn't think it needs it anymore.

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