Another obstacle to a peace agreement has been the division between Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-controlled West Bank. This, too, is rooted in American and Israeli intransigence – specifically, their refusal to accept Hamas’s victory in the 2006 election and recognize the group as the legitimate Palestinian representative.
和平协议的另一大障碍是哈马斯控制的加沙地带和法塔赫控制的约旦河西岸之间的分裂。而这一局面同样要归因于美国和以色列的顽固——即它们拒绝接受哈马斯在2006年选举中获胜、承认其为合法的巴勒斯坦代表组织。这一政策促使法塔赫拒绝将任何约旦河西岸权力交给哈马斯，从而引起巴勒斯坦被占地区的分裂。