Fatah: Mursi invites Abbas to meet over reconciliation

President Mahmoud Abbas received a formal invitation to meet his Egyptian counterpart Muhammad Mursi in Cairo next week, a Fatah official said Wednesday.

Hamas chief's Gaza visit poses challenge to Israel

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) -- The image of Hamas' long-exiled chief triumphantly walking around the Gaza Strip, flashing victory signs beside Islamic militant leaders Friday, illustrates how the group's defiance of Israel is forcing a change in Palestinian politics.

Hamas to 'allow Fatah members to return to Gaza'

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas will allow twenty Fatah members who fled Gaza during fighting in 2007 to return to the coastal enclave, a Fatah official said Sunday.

Palestinian political spectrum is united, split-propaganda started

For Palestinians, Gaza conflict deepens sense of futility with nonviolent approach toward Israel

Obama changes course between courses

For a time there, it looked like business as usual in the Middle East. Barack Obama had made his ''pivot'' to Asia and it would be up to the parties slaughtering each other, oppressors and oppressed, to ask themselves and each other the Sarah Palin question: "How's that hopey-changey stuff working out for ya?"

Fatah and Hamas unite over Gaza

RIVAL Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas say they have agreed to end their infighting in a show of solidarity over the spiralling Gaza crisis.