It took a long while but Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party and its rival Hamas claim to have finally reached a national reconciliation deal, including agreement on an interim government for both the West Bank and Gaza, followed by general elections in a year.Specifics about the deal, brokered by Egypt, are fairly scant.  But this  hardly matters.  Fatah and Hamas have gone down that cul-de-sac before with a short-lived "unity" government that collapsed four years ago when Hamas, in a bloody coup, chased Abbas and Fatah out of Gaza.In the course of this "unity" government, Hamas stuck to its own terrorist agenda to eliminate Israel with whatever violent means will do the job.  As a result, the West cut off ties and financial to the Palestinians, since both the United States and the European Union accurately label Hamas a terrorist group.So, if Palestinian "Unity 2" is a repeat of "Unity 1," will President Obama...(Read Full Post)