Peres: Proposed PA unity gov't would be no more than a 'facade' - Haaretz

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Peres: Proposed PA unity gov't would be no more than a 'facade'

By The Associated Press

Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Wednesday that a proposed Palestinian Authority national unity government would be nothing more than a "facade," because the Hamas militants it would represent are not interested in peace.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah declared last week that efforts to form such a government had broken down, but Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas denied negotiations had reached a dead end.

Hamas would use such a government in an effort to restore international funding that dried up after it took power, Peres said.

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"Hamas doesn't want peace, even if we give them '67 borders," Peres said,
referring to the pre-1967 Six Day War boundaries. "Hamas wants to use Fatah as a facade to get money."

The talks between Abbas and Hamas foundered over the militant group's refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing peace deals.

The Quartet of Middle East negotiators - the European Union, United States, United Nations, and Russia - have made those three stipulations preconditions for lifting the international economic embargo imposed on the PA after Hamas came to power in January.

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1.	Peres! butcher of Qana, how many days remain to disappear?	09:44	\|	Mohammed Al-Ghareeb	06/12/06

2.	hahaha - pot calling the kettle black	10:44	\|	SD	06/12/06

3.	If the Palestinian Arab government does not accept the thre-point	11:05	\|	Nadav	06/12/06

4.	Mohammed Al-Ghareeb. Humanshields=Human victims of return fire	11:35	\|	PETER SM	06/12/06

5.	And what does it matter, Peres?	11:41	\|	Johnboy	06/12/06

6.	#2 peaceful coexistance with whom	11:57	\|	abab	06/12/06

7.	JOHNBOY How little you know.Arafat was president for life	12:10	\|	PETER SM	06/12/06

8.	Response to Mohammed Al-Ghareeb No. 1	12:12	\|	Nossen	06/12/06

9.	Peres is a facade for racist extremists himself	12:38	\|	John	06/12/06

10.	Nossen! take it	12:46	\|	Mohammed Al-Ghareeb	06/12/06

11.	#7 Doesn`t matter PETER SM	12:57	\|	Johnboy	06/12/06

12.	Old Peres with more insight than Olmert	13:14	\|	Jonathan S	06/12/06

13.	# 3 Nadav The 3 magic points....	13:42	\|	Swiss (Dino)	06/12/06

14.	Mohammed Al-Ghareeb # 1	13:43	\|	Yair	06/12/06

15.	To Mohammed Al-Ghareeb No.10	14:30	\|	Nossen	06/12/06

16.	AP gave us some insite -it mispelled facade---- f_ckade	14:52	\|	Sal	06/12/06

17.	Speaking politically	14:59	\|	christoph	06/12/06

18.	Mohammed Al-Ghareeb # 10	15:06	\|	Yair	06/12/06

19.	To Johnboy # 5	15:27	\|	Hy Klein	06/12/06

20.	Peres peace intention is facade	16:05	\|	Jan Elshout	06/12/06

21.	PA unity gov`t a `facade`	17:34	\|	zvi	06/12/06