Maan News, an official media organization of the Palestinian Authority, reports Egypt has rescheduled a conference aimed at restoring Palestinian unity for tomorrow.

According to Maan News, “the head of the Fatah bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Azzam Al-Ahmad said Egypt has informed [Palestinian] president [Mahmoud] Abbas and the factions that it will launch a dialogue on Feb. 25 with all Palestinian groups.”

Fatah spokesperson Fahmi Az-Za’arir said “the movement welcomed this development and will attend the meetings of the dialogue out of the belief that the huge challenges faced by the Palestinians need unity and the empowerment of the internal front…”

Hamas also said it had received an official invitation from Egypt for the meeting, saying it is keen on the success of the dialogue.

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Concerning the visit of senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Az-Zahhar to Cairo, Mr. Taha said “he held a meeting with chief of Egyptian Intelligence, Umar Suleiman, and his assistants.”

A previous Egyptian attempt to reunite the rivals collapsed last November. Hamas, the group in power in Gaza, withdrew from the talks in protest of arrests of its members by Fatah-allied security forces in the West Bank.

Both Hamas and the military wing of the Fatah are defined by the American government as terrorist organizations who hold a common purpose: Destroying Israel by military means. However, both Hamas and the Fatah are now willing to use political means to accomplish their common purpose.

Yet Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both of whom visited Jerusalem over the past week, distinguished between the Fatah and the Hamas.

Both Democratic senators described the Fatah as a partner for dialogue with the American government and both senators described Hamas as a terrorist organization.

The Bulletin has asked both senators for their response to the news of formal cooperation between Fatah and Hamas and awaits their reaction to this development.

David Bedein can be reached at dbedein@israelbehindthenews.com

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David Bedein
David Bedein
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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