Palestinian Authority, Hamas Aim to Mend Ties After 10-Year Deadlock Two days of talks are latest attempt at reconciliation between the two sides By Rory Jones See note please

Posted By on October 3rd, 2017

https://www.wsj.com/articles/palestinian-authority-hamas-aim-to-mend-ties-after-10-year-deadlock-1506952460

This is a summit of  terrorists who have committed mass murder, now posing as peace processors….and the media including the WSJ buys into it calling them “militants.”  rsk

GAZA CITY—Palestinian Authority officials arrived here Monday for two days of talks with militant group Hamas, as the two major Palestinian sides work to mend ties after a decade of deadlock.

The talks are the latest attempt at reconciliation between the groups after years of mistrust, and could lead to a united Palestinian national movement that would participate in peace talks with Israel. Their success hangs on whether Hamas agrees to hand over security of the strip to the Authority for the first time in 10 years.

Israel and the U.S. are carefully watching the outcome of the discussions, which will likely continue for a number of weeks after the delegation’s departure. Israel has fought three wars with Hamas in the past decade.

Among the issues under discussion between Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, is the return of thousands of Authority employees to jobs administering the strip.

Yasser Muhanna is one of thousands of the Authority’s Gazan employees who stopped working with the rise of Hamas and are now eagerly awaiting the talks’ outcome. He walked out of his job in the telecommunications ministry here a decade ago on the orders of the Palestinian Authority, after it ceded control of the enclave to Hamas.

Since then the Authority, which still formally governs the West Bank, has sought to ensure the loyalty of thousands of people like Mr. Muhanna in part by paying them wages though they no longer work. For many, the talks offer a possible way out of that limbo.

“It’s very important,” he said. “We want to keep working.” CONTINUE AT SITE

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