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Senior Palestinian official calls for unification of Islamic Jihad, Hamas into PLO
Mohammad Dahlan, Palestinian politician, the former leader of Fatah in Gaza.
Dahlan warns 'homeland of Palestine and the state of the PLO is in danger', slams Abbas in interview
A senior Palestinian politician last week called for the integration of all Palestinian factions, including the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, into the Palestinian Liberation Organization's new government. BBC Arabic reported late last week.
Mohammad Dahlan, a former senior Fatah official in Gaza, said in an interview with the channel that "the homeland of Palestine and the state of the PLO is in danger," referring to the fact that the number of Israeli settlements have increased under Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's rule.
Mahmoud Abbas (R) accused his main Fatah rival Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders.
Dahlan also stressed that he is not calling for a national reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas but instead suggest, "to unify all Palestinian governmental groups into the PLO."
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and Mohammad Dahlan (left), leave a news conference in Egypt, February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)
Dahlan's statements came a few days after Abbas announced that he had submitted his resignation from the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, along with nine other of its members.
Abbas said the goal of his resignation was to "activate the role of the of the Executive Committee, which is the ruling government of the state of Palestine."
The PNC, or Palestinian parliament, has 740 members who live in the Palestinian territories and in the diaspora. It has not met in nearly 20 years.
The Palestinian parliament
The executive committee is the PLO's highest decision-making body and acts on behalf of Palestinians in the Palestinian territories and the diaspora, namely in the peace process with Israel.
Responding to Abbas' resignation, Dahlan charged that Abbas "does not want elections nor does he want to resign. He also does not want an open reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas."
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Senior Hamas political leader and prime minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh meets with Mohammed Dahlan in an undisclosed location. Al-Akhbar, december 2014.
Dahlan said that he does not seek to become president himself, but stressed that he holds the right to nominate himself should he change his mind.
Dahlan also demanded to suspend all security coordination with Israel, and claimed that the Oslo Accords "expired" and are no longer relevant.
"I was part of the security agreement when it was based on political and economic security between us and Israel. Today, however, it is a very different time," he told BBC Arabic.
On February 7, 2007, leaders from Fatah and Hamas answered King Abdullah's of Saudi Arabia invitation to come to Mecca, in order to end violence in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Leaders of Fatah and Hamas performed pilgrimage at the Grand Mosque in Mecca before deliberations began.
www.palestinechronicle.com/mahmoud-abbas-vs-mohammed-dahlan-the-showdown-begins/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Dahlan
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