December 15, 2007 (LPAC)--Yesterday, Friday, otherwise a day when tensions were rising between the Hamas and Fatah factions of the Palestinian leadership, the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, based in Damascus, called for reconciliation between the two groups. "We call on our brothers in Fatah to embark on a national dialogue to close ranks," said PFLP representative Maher Taher, addressing a rally to mark that group's 40th anniversary, at a refugee camp outside Damascus. "The matter doesn't deserve all this conflict over a partitioned authority that is shackled with all kinds of Zionist conditions," he added, according to Ha'aretz. Taher's remarks, although otherwise couched in the ideology of the PFLP's rejectionist stance, come in the context of international Arab efforts to solve the Hamas-Fatah split following the Annapolis peace conference.

Discussing these Arab mediation efforts on December 11, Lyndon LaRouche noted that the Annapolis peace process which he had fostered seems to be working so far.

At the same time, Hamas and Fatah are blaming each other for an explosion at a Fatah funeral which killed four and wounded more than 30 people in Gaza on Friday. This was followed, later on Friday, by the Gaza arrest for questioning, by Hamas police, of a senior advisor to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of Fatah. Either of both incidents may reflect efforts to derail the Annapolis process by most likely a British Empire.