[Ha'aretz] Avi Issacharoff - No sooner had Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony of the new Palestinian Authority cabinet under Fatah's Salam Fayyad ended, when Hamas declared the new government illegal. "This is an illegitimate government overshadowed by an illegal president," said Hamas leader Ahmed Bakhar. At the same time, several Fatah-affiliated trade unions - specifically those of teachers, laborers and health workers - announced that they would not cooperate with the new government.
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