Haaretz reports:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement hammered an historic reconciliation deal with the rival Hamas group on Wednesday, agreeing to form an interim government and fix a date for general election within the year.
The deal, which took many officials by surprise, was thrashed out in Egypt and followed a series of secret meetings.
A question: Is this deal any more historic than the 2007 Mecca Agreement, the 2008 Sanaa Agreement or any of other Fatah-Hamas agreements that I could probably find with a little more Googling, and which promptly fell apart?
I see no indication that Hamas has dropped its eliminationist position toward Israel, or that Fatah has embraced that position.
