Bardawil: Abbas froze reconciliation in response to American-Israeli pressures

[ 04/07/2011 - 03:02 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas leader Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil has charged that PA chief and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas had frozen the national reconciliation agreement due to American and Israeli pressures.He told Quds Press that Abbas’s insistence on Salam Fayyad for the post of premier of the transitory government was only a cover meant to conceal his acceptance of American-Israeli pressures to backtrack on the reconciliation

agreement.Bardawil said that Abbas was looking for any trivial reason to halt the reconciliation process, opining that any mediation to convince Abbas to complete the reconciliation process would not succeed without an American-Israeli green light.

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