Hamas accuses US of pressuring Palestinian groups
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 3/21/2006

The Islamic resistance groups movement, Hamas, accused the USA of pressuring the other Palestinian groups in order not to take part in a new government under its chairmanship and to justify its plans to attack the Palestinian people.

The chairman of the movement's political bureau Khaled Mashaal who is currently visiting Yemen said that Israel seeks to impose isolation against the new government, noting that the Arab states will specify the size of its aid for the Palestinian people during the next Arab summit to be held in Khartoum this month.

Mashaal added that the "movement has two options in the current challenges. Either to be accept to the conditions of the international community which are those of Israel, and in this case Hamas loses itself (the agenda it is built on, on which it won elections) and thus loose its supporters, or to stay steadfast clinging to the principles of the Palestinian people."

For his part, the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh urged the Palestinian government under the chairmanship of Hamas to accept the Arab peace initiative which was launched in Beirut's summit in 2002 (the Arab Summit peace initiative states to normalize relation with Israel in return for Israel's complete withdrawal from Arab lands to the pre 1967 war lines).

This is the first time in which a President for an Arab state calls clearly on Hamas to abide by the Arab summit peace initiative, which means the need for recognition of the Palestinian movement of Israel.

Hamas has viewed such a position to take regarding Israel as an unneeded and useless statements to make, that only serve to comprise Hamas's position for no useful gain, and leading it on a slippery slope to further compromises that have brought the Palestinians empty promises and manipulation by Israel, as demonstrated by the last ten years of Israeli vague promises given during the many negotiations, that Israel never implements or retracts at will without seeming to want to recognize the rights of the Palestinians or giving demonstrable action to this effect, as Hamas has indicated.

Worth noting, that Israel not only sought to interfere with democratic elections of the Palestinians, but also threatened to assassinate these elected officials, all actions that can be interpret as a despise to the most basic rights of Palestinians to have their own representatives, and this, from an occupier who asks an occupied and brutalized Palestinian population to hurry to recognize the rights of the occupier, and labels those who are chosen by the Palestinians to represent them in their effort to free themselves from this occupation and oppression as terrorists.

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