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A Bad Deal: Why Palestinian Unity Won’t Lead to Peace

April 28, 2011 | Amb. Dore Gold

Representatives of Fatah and Hamas announced that they had suddenly reached a reconciliation agreement. Although the agreement may solve some of the short-term problems of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's statehood drive, it will create larger problems that promise to doom the plan to irrelevancy -- and make a historic peace agreement with Israel far less likely.