Fatah Thinks Dialogue With Hamas Will Improve Situation

Once again, terrorists are providing cover for terrorists. Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas is suggesting that the only way to improve the situation in Gaza is for Fatah to engage in talks with Hamas.

"Only dialogue between Fatah and Hamas will lead to improvement in Gaza," Abbas told the Al-Jazeera news network following his meeting with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Egyptian General Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman in Cairo.

The three men discussed recent developments in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the renewal of contact between quarreling Palestinian factions.

Abbas arrived in Cairo late Sunday night, and met with Mubarak to provide an update on the status of talks between the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and the Hamas leadership, and to discuss with the Egyptian leader the cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel.

His visit to Egypt followed a stopover in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia on Sunday, where the PA president spoke with Saudi King Abdullah on ways of ending the Fatah-Hamas dispute, and offered a briefing on the latest developments surrounding the peace process with Israel.

Officials in Ramallah said over the weekend that Abbas was planning to visit several other Arab countries in the coming days in a bid to win their backing for his latest initiative to end the Fatah-Hamas power struggle.

Sorry, but Abbas gets it completely wrong.

The only way to improve the situation in Gaza is for Hamas to stop its war against Israel. Only then will Israel have any reason to lift the closures and restrictions designed to improve Israel's security against terrorist infiltrations. Fatah and Hamas have a common cause, and perhaps Abbas thinks that Hamas has been weakened to the point where they'll consider Abbas' position, but the various terrorist groups have waged an on again/off-again civil war, that has included tossing their opponents off rooftops.

The rocket attacks continue unabated even as Israel has discovered still more launchers. Meanwhile, terrorists have been stopped with pipe bombs at Israeli checkpoints,

The key detail to remember while the terrorists talk is that they have a common goal in the destruction of Israel, but differ on how to accomplish the goal. Fatah has decided to take the money and run while engaging in "diplomacy", while Hamas has engaged in a destructive rocket war that has caused the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The situation in Gaza may help explain why Abbas is slightly more popular these days than Hamas' Haniyeh, whose destructive war has caused such misery in Gaza.