Posted on 01/07/2006 9:00:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The militant Islamic Hamas group spoke openly for the first time Saturday about the possibility of forming the next Palestinian government after this month's parliamentary elections.
Hamas is expected to deliver a major drubbing to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, which has dominated Palestinian politics for four decades. But Hamas has never directly said it might agree to form a government.
During a campaign visit to families of people killed or taken prisoner in the past five years of conflict with Israel, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar was asked if the atmosphere were ripe for Hamas to form a government that would not deal with Israel, Hamas reported on its Web site.
"Yes. We are running for the Legislative Council to put an end to the vestiges of Oslo," Zahar said, referring to the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians of the early 1990s.
Hamas' popularity comes as Fatah has fallen into disfavor because of corruption and lawlessness on Palestinian streets.
The elections are scheduled for Jan. 25, but there is pressure on Abbas to postpone them for a second time. Abbas has said the balloting could be put off if Israel bars Palestinians from voting in the sector of Jerusalem the Palestinians want as their future capital.
It is unlikely Abbas would postpone the election without Hamas' consent.
"President Abbas will lose his credibility if he postpones the elections," Zahar said. "Anyone who blocks the elections will lose. The elections will take place."
Zahar also restated Hamas' threat to kidnap Israeli soldiers as a bargaining chip to pressure Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.
This election will mark the first time that Hamas — which calls for Israel's destruction and is responsible for dozens of deadly suicide bombings — will field candidates. Israel has called for the Islamic group to be disqualified.
Palestinian youths attend a Hamas rally in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, alongside a photo of founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Palestinians followed reports of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's deteriorating health with a mix of apprehension and glee, and some officials said they feared the prime minister's massive stroke could disrupt Palestinian parliament elections Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Actual responsibiity is to terrorists what Lysol charged with nascent oxygen is to anaerobic bacteria.
"sewer extensions"
your talking about people that live with their donkeys and don't seem to mind excrement all over their streets.
Let's see....who do I vote for here.... Fatah Party or Hamas. Both= poverty, death, economic misery, constant war....oh well, forget it.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Comparing them to bacteria defames bacteria..
They seem to forget the Oslo Accords is what is granting them autonomy inside Israel. No vestiges of Oslo and they do not have a place to form their "government" or have the right to vote. The Palestinians have been down this path many times, trying to create a terror state within a host country by force, but just like when they tried to form one in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, their excesses end up getting them in a real fight that destroys them in the end. Palestinians are like parasites, they suck blood where ever they find a host but it is when they evolve into a disease and try to destroy their host that they get killed off in mass quantities.
Ebola is a very virulent disease, the reason that it has not killed off the human race long ago is that it is so virulent it does not spread as it kills off what it lives in too fast. This final stage of the Palestinian saga, its quite repeatable history when it "goes for broke" is much like a transition into Ebola. Hamas destroys everything it touches. It now is killing Arabs faster than Jews, or indeed faster than even the Jews kill off Arabs, but that is just the beginning. What will spell its end is that it is now killing off it's true host, political support from the Western World.
The Arab League has won far more territory in Israel by politics than it ever has by the power of a gun. These idiots are trading the only weapon that has ever worked for them for the weapons that have never worked and turning on their own people at the same time.
Such fools evil men are. While the bloom of this disease will be spectacular, the course is now set, Palestine is doomed once again, but this time they are not fighting Arabs.
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