A new
meeting held in Cairo this Sunday between Palestinian groups once again raised
the need to abandon their differences in order to reestablish a unity that
would make it possible to deal more forcefully with Israel's aggressions.
The
president, Mahmud Abbas, and the leader of Hamas, Ismael Haniyeh, have
participated in this meeting to discuss a national plan that serves as a
containment barrier to the most extremist Israeli government known to date,
headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.
However,
the Islamic Jihad did not want to participate in this meeting to protest
against the arrest of some of its followers by the Palestinian National
Authority of Mahmud Abbas.
Abbas and
Haniyeh met a few days ago in Turkey at the invitation of the president,
Erdogan.
“We are
closely following developments in Palestine. We are deeply concerned about the
daily increasing loss of life, destruction, development of illegal settlements
and settler violence. The only path to a just and lasting peace in the region
is through support for a two-state solution. We cannot accept actions that seek
to change the historic status quo of holy sites, starting with the Al-Aqsa
Mosque,” the Turkish president said.
Ismaïl
Haniyeh asks Mahmoud Abbas to put an end to security cooperation with Israel,
but also to political arrests in the West Bank. The leader of Fatah for his
part returned to the 2006 elections, evoking a coup d'etat on the part of
Hamas.
We must now
turn the page, believe the Palestinian leaders, who have decided to form a committee
to continue the dialogue. They express the need to return to "one state,
one system, one law and one legitimate army" for the Palestinians.
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