Palestinian hardliners rejected a call by new PLO chief Mahmud Abbas to lay down their weapons as a spiralling death toll in Gaza threatened to undermine his efforts to bring calm to the region. Armed factions have so far rebuffed efforts by Abbas, the favourite to be elected Palestinian Authority president on Janaury 9, to institute a new ceasefire and firmly rejected his argument Wedesday that the use of weapons since the September 2000 start of the second intifada had been a mistake.Full Story
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