Palestinian Reconciliation and Limits for the PLO

The trend that currently shapes the Palestinian scene is that Fatah and Hamas seek internal consensus induced by regional changes after Arab revolutions. However, this consensus is linked to the balance of power in the Arab world which is inclined to support the option of negotiating with Israel.
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The possibilities for the completion of the stages of the Palestinian reconciliation, as contained in the Doha Declaration, which Fatah and Hamas reached under the auspices of Qatar, are still uncertain.This is due to the broad terms of the agreed upon points of this Declaration on the major controversial issues, the mutual trust-crisis between the two sides, the impact of external pressures brought to thwart the Declaration, and the objection of broad sectors within the two organizations to the Declaration. It is likely that the Doha Declaration will meet the same end as previous consensuses reached by Fatah and Hamas, which did not pass the test implementation, such as the Mecca agreement signed in February of 2007, and the Cairo Agreement signed in March of 2011.