Palestinian unity is essential for any peace deal – but the US, Britain and the EU are playing a central role in preventing it
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- Seumas Milne
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 July 2009 18.39 BST
It should be obvious that no settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict is going to stick unless it commands broad support or acceptance on both sides. That is especially true of the Palestinians, who have shown time and again that they will never accept the denial of their national and human rights. The necessity of dealing with all representative Palestinian leaders was recognised by Britain’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee yesterday, which called on the government to end its ban on contacts with Hamas.
But despite the parade of top American officials visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories this week to drum up business for a new peace conference, the US, Britain and European Union continue to play a central role in preventing the Palestinian national unity that is essential if any deal is going to have a chance of succeeding. Far from helping to overcome the split between Fatah and Hamas, the US, Israel and their allies in practice do everything they can to promote and widen it.
Tags: denial of their national and human rights, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israel-Palestine conflict, Palestinians, reports by HR organisations, Seumas Milne
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