(NEWS) Radical Groups Demand Abbas Resign

"PA president urges Israel to seize ‘historic opportunity.’

A day after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged Israel to take advantage of 'this historic opportunity' to achieve peace via the imminent direct negotiations, Hamas and 10 other radical Palestinian groups on Thursday demanded that he resign because of his 'failure to resist heavy American and Israeli pressure' to abandon his preconditions for the talks.

The resignation call was issued following a meeting of the groups’ heads in Damascus."