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Posted on 12/05/2004 8:38:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CHTOURA, Lebanon (AP) - A senior Hamas official expressed hope Sunday that the United States and European Union would be "fairer" in mediating the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but he said his group would continue its resistance even if a Palestinian state was established.
Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, told The Associated Press a Palestinian state was a right "stipulated by all international accords" but was not a reason for Hamas to stop its resistance.
"There are other rights for the Palestinian people that cannot be forgotten or be conceded," Abu Marzouk said without elaborating.
Hamas refuses to accept Israel's right to exist, and it rejected late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's peace accords with the Jewish state.
Abu Marzouk said comments Friday by Sheik Hassan Yousef, Hamas' top leader in the West Bank, did not amount to a truce with Israel.
Yousef told the AP he sees a long-term truce in which Israel and a Palestinian state "live side-by-side in peace and security for a certain period."
In the past, Hamas has said it would accept a Palestinian state in the pre-1967 borders as a first step to taking over Israel.
The militant group, regarded by the United States as a terrorist movement and responsible for multiple suicide attacks killing scores of Israelis, is one of numerous militant factions Palestinian leaders want brought on board in the post-Arafat era to push efforts to achieve Palestinian statehood.
Abu Marzouk, speaking to the AP in Chtoura, near the Syrian border, on his way back home to the Syrian capital of Damascus, said he hoped the United States would adopt a more fair policy toward the Palestinians following Arafat's death last month.
"The U.S. is a superpower and a very influential factor in the region," he said. "We hope it will be fairer to the Palestinian people than ever before. We hope it will listen to the oppressed Palestinian people at this stage."
Abu Marzouk also said the EU should play a bigger role in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "provided that the European visions would be independent from those of America."
Abu Marzouk confirmed that interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is scheduled to visit Damascus on Monday, had asked to meet with Hamas leaders, but he said no date had been set.
Abu Marzouk said Hamas had differences with Abbas over the Palestinian presidential elections set for Jan. 9. The group declared it would boycott the vote, and Abu Marzouk said Hamas would not participate in any future Palestinian government.
"We demanded that a timetable and schedule be set for municipal and legislative elections as well in order for the elections to be more disciplined and for the Palestinian people's will not to be falsified," Abu Marzouk said.
He accused the PLO's mainstream Fatah movement of "trying to grab power" through the elections.
"We think this is not an appropriate behavior for the upcoming stage. That's why we will boycott the elections," he said.
He said there were disagreements with Abbas over his vision and policy, "and we think that he must listen to the Palestinians' pulse and to all Palestinian factions."
"We want the leadership to express the aspirations and ambitions of the Palestinian people and their uprising and resistance to Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands," Abu Marzouk said.
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The Israelis should attack the Palis until they beg for Peace.
Hamas doesn't seem to understand that no Palestinian state will exist without their ceasing to exist.
Kill him without pity or remorse since he'd kill an innocent child or an old lady with the same feelings. He's the enemy of humanity and decency.
These thugs don't want nationhood. They have proven it once again. They just want to destroy Israel, regardless of Palestinian nationhood.
Push the palesites into the sea or desert as the case may be.
There they go, talking out of each side of their a**es again.
Just start carpet bombing then send in the armored bulldozers...or give them a new Terror State...not hard to figure out here folks.
Hey, guess what? The 'palis' still don't get it...(((PING)))
This war is just coming to the surface (and its about time). I think you and I are the only ones you speak the name of the enemy and I wonder whether we should scream it out loud or whisper it to those who get it...
Whadda think?
My vocal chords are getting kind of sore...
But I still think this whole thing has been poorly defined...I might be wrong...but if it is demonic...nukes arent' gonna take it out.
If I'm wrong, just tell me why.. I'm a good listener.
But I am also good at seeing what is coming...always have been (more a curse than a blessing}.
"A senior Hamas official expressed hope Sunday that the United States and European Union would be "fairer" in mediating the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but he said his group would continue its resistance even if a Palestinian state was established.
Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, told The Associated Press a Palestinian state was a right "stipulated by all international accords" but was not a reason for Hamas to stop its resistance.
"There are other rights for the Palestinian people that cannot be forgotten or be conceded," Abu Marzouk said without elaborating.
Hamas refuses to accept Israel's right to exist, and it rejected late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's peace accords with the Jewish state.
Abu Marzouk said comments Friday by Sheik Hassan Yousef, Hamas' top leader in the West Bank, did not amount to a truce with Israel.
Yousef told the AP he sees a long-term truce in which Israel and a Palestinian state "live side-by-side in peace and security for a certain period."
In the past, Hamas has said it would accept a Palestinian state in the pre-1967 borders as a first step to taking over Israel."
Translation:
Messhugenneh Hamas Yutz says the same ole same ole the various carpetbaggers have been saying since before 1948, causing millions to grab the remote in a desparate attempt to find another channel with better programming.
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