Palestinian Authority President denied reports on Saturday that he had agreed to begin talks with Hamas following the US-sponsored Middle East summit scheduled to take place in Annapolis in November.

In the report published by the London-based Al Hayat newspaper on Saturday, a Hamas source revealed that Abbas had agreed to hold talks with Hamas in Egypt following the summit.

According to the source, “Many Arab countries tried convincing Abu Mazen [Abbas] to hold talks between [Fatah and Hamas], but every time he requested a postponement. Recently, during a meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Basheer, Abu Mazen agreed to begin the talks after Basheer discussed with him the importance of a dialogue.”

Full Article (Jerusalem Post)

…and the back-stabbing of Israel by their “partner in peace” begins…

(IsraelNN.com) Fatah plans to wait until after the Washington DC Olmert-Abbas-Bush conference in November – and then reconcile with Hamas.

“I believe the dialogue between the two movements is a certain choice, but I think it will be delayed until after the conference in the fall,” Fatah central command member Kadora Fares was quoted by Haaretz as saying.

Fares later qualified his statement as more of a threat: If Israel did not make enough concessions, Fatah would choose the path of Hamas. “But if a breakthrough is achieved, then Hamas has to revise itself and be more realistic in dealing with the political development,” he said.

Full Article (Arutz Sheva)

Why, oh why, do I think they’ll “choose the path of Hamas?”

Click Here (MEMRI TV)

This is some rather impressive propaganda, though I’m not quite sure what to think of it since I think both sides involved are evil.