BREAKING SCOOP: Khaled Mashal Will Go To Cairo

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Source: The Wasington Note

BREAKING SCOOP: Khaled Mashal Will Go To Cairo


-- I have just learned through credible sources that the Cairo-brokered reconciliation deal between the Palestinian political parties Fatah and Hamas, while officially delayed at the moment, will get a course correction tomorrow.

Although Hamas called today for a "delay" in the Cairo meeting and deal signing ceremony, I have learned through a credible source that Hamas leader Khaled Mashal will inform the Egyptians tomorrow that he is ready to go to Cairo.

There have been rumors for weeks that a deal was close -- even though sources also reported the Americans were trying to undermine the process of moving the parties toward a reconciled unity government.

This is huge news -- and has important ramifications for the Israel/Palestine negotiations process that President Obama has been trying to but thus far has failed to kickstart.

-- Steve Clemons


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[Davis_X_Machina]

1. I am trying to understand...

...in the light of Clemmon's statement "...sources also reported the Americans were trying to undermine the process of moving the parties toward a reconciled unity government" how we, or more narrowly the Obama administration, can be anti-Israel, or at least insufficiently pro-Israel, and insufficiently pro-Palestinian, or anti-Palestinian at the same time.