KHALED ABU TOAMEH
“It was Hamas that won the election [in 2006] and not Mahmoud Abbas,” said a Hamas legislator who asked not to be identified. “Many people in Hamas are not happy with this agreement.” Another Hamas legislator, Ismail Ashqar, criticized the Qatari-sponsored pact, saying it “violated th...
An informed source told Xinhua that the Hamas delegation is led by Khalil Al-Hayya, the group's deputy chief in Gaza, and Hossam Badran, a member of Hamas's political bureau. The Egyptian-sponsored talks aims to bridge differences between the two factions regarding the governance of the Gaza...
Feuds between Fatah and Hamas began when the latter seized control of the Gaza Strip by force in June 2007. However, they had signed in Cairo in May 4 on an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation pact, but this pact is still pending due to deep differences on forming an interim unity government....
Analysts remained skeptical about whether the Palestinian reconciliation efforts would lead to a tangible change on the ground, because neither of the factions has shown interest in genuine power-sharing in the past, and they have deep differences over how to deal with Israel, which Hama...
Question 1: Fatah and Hamas are two influential political factions within Palestine. What are the main differences between them? Fatah is a majorpolitical entity within Palestine recognized by the international community, primarily operatingin the west bank region of the Jordan River. Hamas, on the...
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal buried their differences at a Cairo ceremony Wednesday and endorsed a historic reconciliation agreement that will pave the way for elections within a year and end the bitter divide between the West Bank and Gaza, despite Israel's ...
NAM urges Palestinian factions Hamas, Fatah to end their differences
Second, can the realist theory of international relations (IR) help us understand the differences or similarities observed in Hamas's and Fatah's preferences for reconciliation and rapprochement? Since the turn of the decade, dominant states in the Middle East have become reactive (and proactive) ...