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...TIME: Your reaction to the Palestinian infighting...
...TIME: Does the fighting jeopardize the Mecca Agreement [creating the Palestinian unity government] negotiated by Saudi Arabia...
...Prince Saud: The government, when it was formed, it was to lead the Palestinian people towards the negotiated settlement. But if fighting continues, and spreads, and the government falls, then that would be catastrophic for the cause of peace. Certainly there will not be any reasonable expectation of success [for the Arab peace initiative] without a return to unity between the Palestinians...
When Gaza is aflame, Sderot is typically the first Israeli town to feel the heat. The small town of about 23,00 people perched on a pleasant bit of countryside near the Gaza Strip is within easy range of the homemade, unguided, Qassam rockets fired by Palestinian militants across the fence. And with Gaza spiraling into a chaotic Palestinian civil war, at least 70 rockets have been fired into Israel over the past two days, several of them landing in Sderot. One even hit a building near the home of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, a Sderot native...
...government doesn't appear to have an answer. Since Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, the territory has teetered on the brink of civil war between Palestinian factions. Fatah, which oversaw the creation of the Palestinian Authority in negotiation with Israel and the United States, lost its monopoly on power when Hamas decided to contest the January 2006 elections and won a dramatic victory - one which neither Washington, alarmed by Hamas's hostility to Israel's very existence, nor many of the Fatah activists whose power of patronage required holding onto the machinery of government, were prepared to accept. After...