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Lapid: Fatah-Hamas accord is game-changer By LAHAV HARKOV, SAM SOKOL, GIL HOFFMAN04/24/2014 00:43Bennett says unity deal has turned PA into "largest terrorist organization in the world, 20 minutes from Tel Aviv.”Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday of tricking Israel and the United States by negotiating an agreement with Hamas.Both Lapid and Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni had said in recent days that they would only keep their parties in the coalition to advance peace talks. But both blamed the Palestinians for the cancellation of talks that were set for Wednesday, and said the entire diplomatic process would have to be reevaluated.“We transferred some of the most vicious killers to the Palestinian Authority, only to find that they have this agreement or they were working on this agreement with Hamas without telling anybody,” Lapid told members of the European Jewish Congress executive Wednesday night.“I think the Americans must be as disappointed as we are from the fact that this was hidden from everybody and was done underground,” he said.Lapid stated that Hamas joining the Palestinian government would be “a game-changer.” He said Abbas had violated Israel’s trust by reaching the agreement with Hamas, and that trust was a necessity for Israel to make a deal with him.“Hamas is a jihadi terror organization that is proud of killing civilians – women, children, the elderly – just because they’re Jewish,” he said. “If the Palestinians really want a treaty with Israel, how did they not demand from Hamas to say it is abandoning terror and committing to not hurt innocent people and to follow international law?” The finance minister posited that the Palestinians didn’t really want a state – a process that would take more than a vote in the UN.