Israel Slams 'Weak' U.S. Response To Fatah-Hamas Unity Deal

[Purveyor]

Source: Haaretz

By Barak Ravid | Apr. 24, 2014 | 11:24 PM

Israel is disappointed with the 'weak' American reaction to the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, and demands a clearer, more resolute response, a senior Israeli official involved in the dialogue with Washington told Haaretz on Thursday.

Government ministers discussed the international response to the unity agreement at the five-hour security cabinet meeting that dealt with the Palestinian pact that was reached on Wednesday. According to the senior official, ministers were in full agreement that the American response was "insufficient, weak, merely for show and didn't include enough exclamation marks."

After the reconciliation deal was announced, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki called the deal "troubling" and said the United States was "disappointed" by it. She added that Washington would ask the Palestinians to provide clarifications.

The senior official said Israel made it clear to the Americans that they were disappointed with their response and asked that they take a sharper, clearer tack, as they did when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's threatened to disband the PA. At the time, the State Department issued a public warning to Abbas that such a move would have serious implications for U.S. relations with the Palestinians.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Israel can fuck off.

[aceofblades]

2. About as strong a statement as..

Israel's abstention of the GA resolution that the U.S. proposed with regards to the Ukraine crisis. Regardless of one's position on the issue, by definition an abstention is clear in it's unclear when it comes to which side one is taking on an issue.

[okaawhatever]

7. No kidding. That was the exact moment I was done with Bibi's administration. Until he gets rid of

Bennett and Liebeman he will get exactly zero support from me. Those three are like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. As to the Haartz story, my only response is AYFKM? Oh wait, clearly Americans aren't using enough exclamation points. AYFKM!!!!!!!!

[geek tragedy]

3. Whiny ingrates. nt

[former9thward]

4. This shows the Palestinians have no interest in talks.

Hamas is a terrorist organization which is sworn to destroy Israel. Abbas has made his bed and now he will now lay in it (with a partner who will eventually kill him).

[azurnoir]

5. The unity deal allows for elections that are long ove due

elections in which all Palestinians can participate, elections that might well vote Hamas back into a minority position

[starroute]

6. Didn't include enough exclamation marks?

Has Haaretz turned into the Onion? I'm confused.