(Jerusalem Post) Alan Baker - The Fatah-Hamas "reconciliation" places the responsibility for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit directly and openly on the shoulders of the merged PA governing body since he would become an official hostage of the new joint administration. Thus the real test regarding the seriousness of the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas - and proof of a genuine desire for respectability and acceptability in the international community - will be the immediate and unconditional release of the hostage Shalit. The writer, a former legal adviser of the Foreign Ministry and former ambassador to Canada, is director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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