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Israel warns Abbas over deal with Hamas

Cheney hits out at Iran, Syria as he wraps up ME peace push

AFP. Jerusalem
A senior Israeli official yesterday warned Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas against striking a reconciliation deal with Hamas, saying it would effectively sink faltering Middle East peace talks
"Mahmud Abbas must decide whether he wants to continue negotiations with Israel or if he wants to renew an alliance with Hamas, as he cannot have both at the same time," the official said on condition of anonymity.
The sentiment was echoed by other unnamed Israeli officials cited by both army and public radio in their morning news reports
The statements came a day after Abbas's Fatah signed an agreement with Hamas in Sanaa to open first direct talks between the two bitter rivals since the Islamists bloody seizure of the Gaza Strip nine monthsago.
"The two movements Hamas and Fatah have agreed to accept the Yemeni initiative as a frame-
work for dialogue between the two movements and a return of the Palestinian situation to what it was before the events in Gaza," the declaration said.
But within hours of signing the agreement, the two bitter rivals bickered over its meaning, with Hamas focusing on the first part of the statement while Fatah high lighted the second as a precondition for any talks.
The Hamas seizure of Gaza effectively split the Palestinian territories into two separate entities with the Islamists controlling the impoverished coastal strip and Abbas ruling the occupied West Bank.
Israel considers Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state, a terror group and refuses to have any direct dealings withit.
Israel and Abbas renewed peace negotiations in late November under US auspices, but the talks have made little progress since.
Meanwhile, US Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday hit out at
Iran and Syria as he wrapped up a Middle Fast peace push, saying they were undermining the renewed but faltering Israeli-Palestinian talks. Iran and Syria "are doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process," Cheney told reporters in Jerusalem as he wrapped up a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories before heading to TUrkey.
During his talks with Israeli and Palestinian leadership, "I reaffirmed the president's commitment to help the process forward," Cheney said
US President George W. Bush has said he hoped the two sides could strike a deal before he ends his term in January ZOOM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who met twice with Cheney during his visit "reaffirmed his commitment to the president's vision and his willigness to do everything he can to achieve a result in 2008 although he is well aware of the difficulties," Cheney said.
In Turkey, Cheney was to meet
with President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister RecepTayyip Erdogan and other senior officials on the last leg ol a regional tour that has also taken him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.
In his first visit to the occupied West Bank as vice president on Sunday, Cheney said he told moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas that "the United States is committed to doing everything we can to facilitate the peace process" but "we cannot dictate theoutcome."
The talks with the Palestinian leadership came as Abbas's secular Fatah party and the I lamas movement penned a deal in Yemen to hold their first direct talks since the Islamists' bloody seizure of Gaza nine months ago.
"My conclusion in talking with the Palestinian leadership is that they have established preconditions which would have to be filled before they would ever agree to a reconciliation including a complete reversal of the Hamas takeover of Gaza," Cheney said.