MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 8, 2007

Palestinian Factions Sign Governing Deal

Fatah And Hamas Ink Agreement On Power-Sharing; Hamas Says It Will "Respect" Peace Deals With Israel

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  • Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, left, meets with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, center and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, in Mecca on Feb. 8, 2007. The rival Palestinian factions reached an agreement on how to divvy up Cabinet posts in a power-sharing government. Photo

    Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, left, meets with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, center and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, in Mecca on Feb. 8, 2007. The rival Palestinian factions reached an agreement on how to divvy up Cabinet posts in a power-sharing government.  (AP Photo/Suhaib Salem, Pool)

(AP)  Rival Palestinian leaders signed an agreement on a power-sharing government Thursday in Saudi-brokered talks in Mecca. Under the deal, the militant Hamas group promises to "respect" peace deals with Israel.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, of the mainstream Fatah movement, and Khaled Mashaal, leader of the militant Hamas group, signed the accord at a ceremony hosted by Saudi King Abdullah in a palace overlooking the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine.

The deal sets out the principles of the coalition government, including a promise that it will "respect" previous peace deals with Israel, delegates said. It also divvies up Cabinet posts in the new government.

Announcing the agreement at the ceremony, Abbas aide Nabil Amr read a letter in which Abbas designated Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, to draw up the new government according to the formula agreed on in the talks within five weeks.

Abbas said the deal would "satisfy our people ... and bring us to the shores of peace ... This initiative has been crowned with success."

Mashaal said the accord "will unify our ranks. There is a commitment and unity. We will preserve this partnership."

Before the ceremony, a Hamas delegate said the deal set the outlines of the new government's political platform, including a provision by which the factions — including Hamas — would "respect" previous peace deals between the Palestinians and Israel. The delegate spoke on condition of anonymity because he was giving the information prior to the formal announcement.

They will also be based on a document drawn up last summer by Hamas and Fatah activists jailed in Israeli prisons. That document calls for a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, the areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War.

In drawing up the new government, Hamas is to propose an independent candidate to hold the crucial post of interior minister, who would control the Palestinian security forces. Abbas would then approve the candidate. The Interior Ministry post was one of the main obstacles to the deal, with each side loathe to see it in the hands of the other.



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by one_american February 8, 2007 3:43 PM PST
As a sign of good fail between their factions, Fatah and Hamas agree to kill Jews on alternate days.
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by one_american February 8, 2007 3:45 PM PST
As a sign of good faith between their factions, Fatah and Hamas agree to kill Jews on alternate days.
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by djberson February 8, 2007 4:08 PM PST
With or without the US or Israel, the Palistinians will never amount to nothin'.
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by grazinggoat February 8, 2007 5:44 PM PST
The impression of final peace for Israel will come from Mecca where pretendously Abraham left Haggar and Ishmael (one of his two sons with Isaac). Quite paradoxal, isn't it?.
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by dargay February 8, 2007 6:30 PM PST
israel and the us have tried SOOO hard, still they have not crushed the valiant Palestinians!
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by titocordero February 8, 2007 7:03 PM PST
The impression of final peace for Israel will come from Mecca where pretendously Abraham left Haggar and Ishmael (one of his two sons with Isaac). Quite paradoxal, isn't it?.
Posted by grazinggoat at 05:44 PM : Feb 08, 2007

Oh give it a rest goat. Ishmael ("wild *** of a man") Genesis 16:12(NIV) will never let Israel have any peace. Peace will only come at the cost of the building of a whole new world pon the destruction of the old world. This will only take place with the coming of J.C. There might be an impression of Peace but it'll be a house of cards as unstable as the present situation.
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by patriotic9 February 8, 2007 7:43 PM PST
One_American
"As a sign of good faith between their factions,Fatah and Hamas agree to kill on alternate days".
It doesn't matter what is the religious belief of those Europeans who were brought into Palestine after WWII to occupy the land of those Palestinians by force who had nothing to do with the crimes comited by Hitler,all the European invaders in Palestine deserve to be either killed for the illegal occupation of the Palestinian land or go back to their original countries in Europe.
Unfortunately enemies of United States like One-Anti-Americans will keep on supporting the illigitimate and unjustified existance of Israel on the cost of American money,American lives and USA herself as Americans are GOD-NEGLECTED whereas NON-AMERICAN EUROPEAN INVADERS in Palestine are GOD-CHOSEN,Israel which can't even survive without stealing our Tax dollars is a HOLY LAND whereas USA is UNHOLY,our constitution which separates church from state is UNHOLY whereas the RADICAL BIBLE which racially discriminates against Americans by not promising them a SINGLE PENNY whereas promising NON-AMERICANS a land in the Middle East is HOLY.
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by patriotic9 February 8, 2007 7:43 PM PST
Make it
"Agree to kill jews on alternate days"
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by grazinggoat February 8, 2007 8:03 PM PST
titocordero,
It's a particularly astonishing affirmation from U. What is the new world? When will it start? Has it already started? What about saying the new world will start in 2 years, 20 years, 200 years, 2 milleniae from now. It's all relative to a certain point-event in time. We are living in the new world of 5 minutes ago, 5 hours, 5 days, 5 yars... ago, my friend.

What is miraculous in the concept of creation has astonished the minds because the future is starting now. As long as the future is not defined by mean of an event happening after an accountable amount of time (ie: revolutions around the sun), prediction cannot be pronounced.

So the new world in your way of thinking is completely wrong and where you take it from is even less correct.

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by grazinggoat February 8, 2007 8:09 PM PST
Make it
"Agree to kill jews on alternate days"
Posted by patriotic9

-don't drop so low in others' esteem.
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by patriotic9 February 8, 2007 8:27 PM PST
Should we keep on taking Oil in cheaper prices from Arabs and in return support their those enemies who were brought into Palestine after WWII to occupy the lands of those Palestinians by force who didn't even know the language spoken by Hitler?
In Christianity,actions have no value.A new born child who is incapable of comiting sins like Adultery,fornication,unjustly killing people,etc. is born in sins he or she has never comited,is incapable of making intentions of comiting sins and even incapable of thinking obout those sins or understanding what is sin and what is not a sin.
Now we have a weird situation.Sins comited by Adam and Eve,sinners are those new born children who are incaplable of comiting sins,having intentions of sins and even thinking about sins,and the price is payed neither by Adama and Eve nor by SIN-LESS new born sinners but by a third party named JESUS.
Sins comited by somebody else,sinner is somebody else,and price is payed by somebody else.
From this Non-sense,we don't have to be a Rocket scientist to figure out that CHIRTIANITY is PSYCHOSIS and CHRISTIANS are PSYCHOTICS.
Any body can see this PSYCHOSIS in reality in the actions of BUSH.
OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN in TORA BORA and BUSH was planning to attack Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11 is the continuation of that PSYCHOSIS according to which JESUS-LOVING people are GOD-NEGLECTED adn JESUS-HATERS are GOD-CHOSEN.
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by titocordero February 8, 2007 8:50 PM PST
Grazinggoat

I'm talking as a matter of faith not historical relativity. You're taking what I'm saying and putting it in a philosophical context that has no basis in the very fundamental point I'm laboring to get across to you. A true and everlasting peace between Issac and Ishmael will be such a significant event that those still living at this time will know that a new world is upon us and the old ways of this world has passed. This statement is a matter of belief and faith and does not have to be justified hisorically or philosophically.
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by bluestardad February 8, 2007 8:50 PM PST
This is in no way in Americas Interests. Leave these people alone.
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by patriotic9 February 8, 2007 9:23 PM PST
titocordero
Which faith and belief are you talking about.I respect whatever faith or belief you have as long as you keep your faith and belief to yourself.We have already paid enough price in the form of 9/11 by involving PSYCHOSIS called Christianity in our politics.
Unfortunately,Christianity is no longer only a PSYCHOSIS but a tool to fool the people of United States.
A vast majority of Americans have been made SLAVES,SERVANTS,PROTECTORS and DEFENDERS of a very small minority on the basis of Americans being GOD-NEGLECTED and NON-AMERICAN EUROPEAN INVADERS IN PALESTINE being GOD-CHOSEN.It is the responsibility of the GOD-NEGLECTED Americans to work day and night to pay tax to the govt and it's the right of the NON-AMERICAN GOD CHOSEN ENEMIES of the GOD'S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON to snatch more then $3 Billions from the US tax payed money for the killing of those who give us Oil in cheaper prices.Nobody in the the history of mankind has ever been fooled like we Americans.
Who cares about Issac and Ishmael?This is 21st century.We don't even know whether those guys ever existed or not.Even if they ever existed,how it's related to American interest.It's already too late.We better wake up now or it'll be never.
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by feelfree1 February 8, 2007 9:41 PM PST
Re: "Palestinian Factions Sign Governing Deal"

Good news! They really must work together to defend themselves against the shameful and illegal occupation and colonization of Palestine, by the Israeli terror-State.

The recent Israeli attack against the people of Lebanon showed us that their leaders lack any respect for the rule of law, or any sense of common decency.

For a look at some of the Israeli atrocities during their recent collective punishment of the Lebanese people, please see:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpB1x5Qzyg
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by grazinggoat February 8, 2007 9:45 PM PST
titocordero,
You got to be auto-critical, instead of gobbling already-made sentences and embracing decisions already made for you (you think are for you). Just make your brain, logics, and reasoning, and you'll see how beautiful is the world. A world you and everyone of us wants to make happen, instead of taking it from an old receipe book.

Be more creative, inventive. Imagine a newer, better world that passes those limits given to Humans that showed, relatively successful for their survival.

Faith does not prevent you from being creative, visionary, full of peace. Jesus and all the visionary men (prophets), have gone out of the then box.
They all looked for liberty from the past and... the old scriptures. At a certain point they were reconciling with their physical or ideological enemies. Reconcile with yourself and look deep into yourself for peace instead of holding this destructive hatred that is promoted in those scriptures.
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by titocordero February 8, 2007 9:48 PM PST
Pathetic9

Check it out man you can lose your soul if you want to that's your business. Let me tell you something youignorantaetheistmotherfucker you can live your life as you wish and do what you want but don't try to impose on someone else your beliefs or disbeliefs for that matter. I don't have to justify my faith or belief to anyone especially not some aetheist soulessbastard like yourself. I've read enough of your racist God; Israel stole Palestinian land tirades that you've been spewing on these blogs to see your completely and utterly stupid and vile and nothing that you say is supported by any kind of facts or even at the very least common sense. I'm going to leave you with this you ignorant hard luck fool. I rather live my life like there is a God, die and found that there isn't than to live my life like there is no God then die and find out that there is......Take that any way you wish
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by titocordero February 8, 2007 10:06 PM PST
Grazinggoat,

Let me tell you it's not in my character to hate anyone, not even someone as self indulged as yourself who thinks he can dissect my personality by reading the few lines I've posted on this report and give me advice on how I should be more introspective and question the way I see and perceive the world. If you post your comment on this blog you open yourself up to criticism but how are you going to tell me what I should believe and how I should perceive the world. Your beliefs are a product of your cultural and spiritual upbringing not to be put in a philosophical context to try and depose you of those beliefs. Don't try to do that to me 'cause that's where conflicts are created.
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by patriotic9 February 8, 2007 10:06 PM PST
titocordero
"youignorantatheistmotherfucker"
Dude your language shows your spirituality and religiousness.I feel so sorry about you and your religious beliefs which teaches you that type of language.
If you don't consider 9/11 a fact but facts are what been taught in the fairy tale stories written in a thousand of years old NON-SENSE BIBLE which has numerous versions,not even a single one of em were written at the time of JESUS nor any of those versions had any chain of link to JESUS,it's not your own fault.You are just proving my point that CHRISTIANITY is PSYCHOSIS and CHRISTIANS are PSYCHOTICS.
Just one question:How many more million innocent people you PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIANS need to kill to bring JESUS back to this world?
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by patriotic9 February 8, 2007 10:11 PM PST
titocordero
I am sorry man.I forgot that you can say and do whatever you want as Jesus already died for your sins.
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by titocordero February 8, 2007 10:21 PM PST
Pathetic9

Brother I don't pretend to be perfect or anything close to that. I'm human too with all my wonderful imperfections and one of them maybe my temper. So let me just say you can gofuckyourself and believe anything you want but like I told Grazinggoat if you post a comment on this blog you've got to know that there are going to be people who disagree with you and will let you know it in no uncertain terms. So the next time you go on an idiotic tirade of poor Palestinians how the Jews stole their land and we're paying for it with our tax dollars BS there's going to be someone like me to let you know how stupid your comment reads..............ignorantfuck.
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by patriotic9 February 8, 2007 10:34 PM PST
singinrick
Why a new born child who is incapable of even thinking about comiting a sin is born in the sins he or she has never comited nor capable of making intentions or thinking about those sins?Why those who believe in Jesus as a MESSIAH and SON OF GOD are GOD-NEGLECTED and why those who deny JESUS as MESSIAH and SON of GOD,DENY the virginity of his mother and accuse her of fornication are CHOSEN by GOD.Why me an American should work day and night to pay tax to our govt and why a European invader in Palestine should be allowed to snatch more then $3 Billions a year from my tax money which in return gives me and my nation and my country 9/11,hatred and terrorism.
Regarding your question about whose side I am gonna be when Jesus'll return back.Dude,I personally have not seen or heard a single case of a guy to return back to this world after he is dead.
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by djberson February 8, 2007 11:15 PM PST
Leaders worldwide are so busy speaking of how essential it is for a State of Palestine to be founded that none of them seems to have noticed that it already exists. This state was officially founded in the summer of 2005, when Israel removed its military forces and civilian population from the Gaza Strip and so established the first wholly independent Palestinian state in history.Israel's destruction of four Israeli communities in Northern Samaria and curtailment of its military operations in the area set the conditions for statehood in that area as well. And so it is that as statesmen and activists worldwide loudly proclaim their commitment to establishing the sovereign State of Palestine, they miss the fact that Palestine exists. And it is a nightmare. In the State of Palestine 88 percent of the public feels insecure. Perhaps the other 12 percent are members of the multitude of regular and irregular militias. For in the State of Palestine the ratio of police/militiamen/men-under-arms to civilians is higher than in any other country on earth.In the State of Palestine, two-year-olds are killed and no one cares. Children are woken up in the middle of the night and murdered in front oftheir parents.Worshipers in mosques are gunned down by terrorists who attend competing mosques. And no one cares. No international human rightsgroups publish reports calling for an end to the slaughter. No UN body condemns anyone or sends a fact-finding mission to investigate the murders.
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by djberson February 8, 2007 11:19 PM PST
In the State of Palestine, women are stripped naked and forced to march in the streets to humiliate their husbands. Ambulances are stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded are shot in cold blood. Terrorists enter operating rooms in hospitals and unplug patients from life-support machines.In the State of Palestine, people are kidnapped from their homes in broad daylight and in front of the television cameras. This is the case because the kidnappers themselves are cameramen. Indeed, their commanders often run television stations. And because terror commanders run television stations in the State of Palestine, it should not be surprising that they bomb the competition's television stations. SO IT WAS that last week, terrorists from this group or that group bombed Al Arabiya television station in Gaza. And so it is that Hamas attacks Fatah radio announcers and closes down their radio station claiming that they use their microphones to incite murder. Because indeed, they are inciting murder. What would one expect for terrorists to do when placed in charge of a radio station?

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by grazinggoat February 9, 2007 12:10 AM PST
singinrick
Here goes my slandering to you with all pride and high head. You know how many resurrections are done on a daily basis, in hospitals all over the world, *******?

Is it logical to pretend Jesus never died? He just fainted?
Some scientists pretend that when he was hanged on the cross, he fainted (temporary coma) because of the crucifiction position preventing a normal air exchange caused by the falling of his chest under the weight of his head and curving his air ducts.

Add to that that Christ was already exhausted, drained, carrying his cross for almost 2 miles in the heat of Judea. Have you tried it guys? He had been nailed and loss of blood caused him to lose his blood pressure and to be knocked out. Books say he's been hanging there for a short period of time, just long enough to faint, but to saty alive (short coma).

Sabbath coming fast, his relatives carried him to the tomb where he was deposited and left for dead, which he was not, for Sabbath. No wonder he stood up alive two to three days after. He needed badly to rest. We know the rest of the story. It's nice to tell. It allows the christianity to say that Christ died for the world's sins.

That's cheap to buy our sins from Almighty GOD, because God did not accept the Christ's death. HE kicked him back into life.
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 12:10 AM PST
"Ambulances are stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded are shot in cold blood."

They are not always stopped. Often the Israelis open fire on ambulances when they are moving, as we saw recently in Lebanon, for example.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpB1x5Qzyg
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 12:17 AM PST
The most disgusting policy of the Israelis, though, is their chronic use of "human shields". Their own highest court banned this practice, but the extermists who control Israel don't show any respect even for their own laws.

www.adalah.org/newsletter/eng/oct05/1.php

The Israelis have become their own worst oppressors. They comprise a rogue terror State.

What a contemptable country.
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by grazinggoat February 9, 2007 12:22 AM PST
-grazinggoat, thank you for your constant ridicule of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I'm sure He thinks highly of you because of it.

My prayer is thay one day you will come to know the Truth.
Good night.
Posted by singinrick

-Really Eager to see him that day, that'll come there no doubt. And He'll tell you, how ******* you were during your life. Watch it coming, you'll be slapped for blindedly believing in all what is written without questionning... a iota of second, the same way you believe blindedly in the sinner Walking-Liar. This is not human.
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by grazinggoat February 9, 2007 12:24 AM PST
singinrick,
now you can go sleep. Good night.
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 12:25 AM PST
singinrick,

I will not join you in your hate-based dellusional crusade of mass-murder.

I am not interested in your cult, or your pedaphilic web sites. I have already explained this to you.
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 12:38 AM PST
singinrick,

Again, I am not interested in your deal-cult, whatever you want to call it, whatever demons you endorse, and I am definitely NOT interested in your child-porn links.

Shove off!
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 12:45 AM PST
singinrick,

I have just one question for you: if your are planning to 'rise up' with your benevolent and bloodthirsty demons, please PLEASE tell me who I must pray to to be left behind!!!
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 12:58 AM PST
Re: "USA and Israel are the good guys?"

This is not a football game, and your feeble, yet infantile analysis is not fit to wipe with.

I have already expressed some opinions here regarding the rogue terror-State of Israel. Since you appear to be devoid of any reading comprehension skills, there seems little point in repeating them.

I have already pointed to a film about recent Israeli State-terrorism and war-crimes. Considering your apparent handicap, I will repost it for you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpB1x5Qzyg
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 1:02 AM PST
"in case you're wondering, this is how the Bible describes satan."

I wasn't wondering. I couldn't care less how the bible, or any other work of satanic fiction describes your demons.
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 1:13 AM PST
singinrick,

Re: "The only "demons" are the ones you are allowing to control your thoughts about what you hear and see on the far-left news."

How do I persuade them to leave me behind when your bloodthirsty ghost comes for you?
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by feelfree1 February 9, 2007 1:16 AM PST
stinkingprick,

Re: "Demons belong to satan, the father of lies"

Congratulations! I hope you all are very happy together. Just please, leave me out!
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