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Report: U.S. Will Accept PA Election Postponement to Block Hamas Win
(Times of Israel) The U.S. would not object to a Palestinian Authority decision to postpone the legislative elections set for May 22, the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper reported Friday, citing an "informed" U.S. source. The source said he believed the Biden administration "will look with understanding at the possibility of postponing the elections for some time." Referring to Hamas, the source warned that "the rise of Palestinian forces that reject the two-state solution, reject abandoning violence, and refuse to stop the anti-Israel and U.S. rhetoric, or abandon incitement - the rise of such forces to a decision-making position will complicate, or even completely dispel, prospects for the two-state solution." "All signs indicate that the multiple divisions within Fatah, and the quasi-tribal conflict between the various factions of Fatah, will reduce its ability to mobilize the Palestinians in a way that enables them to defeat Hamas."