The PA says that the Obama administration says it’s just fine and dandy to include Hamas in the PA government.
The Obama administration has given the Palestinian Authority a “green light” to talk to Hamas about forming a Palestinian unity government, a PA official in Ramallah said over the weekend.
The official said that Washington had also given Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak the go-ahead to resume his efforts to achieve reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah.
“The new administration has a different policy than that of [former US president] George W. Bush,” the official told The Jerusalem Post. “The administration of President Barack Obama believes that a Hamas-Fatah government is good for stability.”
Well, there’s no way this can go bad.
On the other hand, the PA has been known to lie. So I’ll give this one the benefit of the doubt until I see another source. Besides Omri, that is. (Not really holding my breath over this one… I’m quite sure it’s true in essence, if not in fact.)
Of course, the best news about this is that Hamas and the PA have failed at every single attempt at unity, what with Hamas openly wanting an Islamic state, and the PA mostly wanting money and paying lip service to Islamism.