Hamas urges resistance

Sheik Ahmed Yassin the spiritual leader of Hamas movement said that "the important thing is not declaring a country but keeping the rights of the Palestinian people topped by 'the right of return' and the full domination on Jerusalem, assuring that the Palestinian people, Arafat and the Islamic Nations have no choice except resistance in order to get Jerusalem and the Palestinians back."

He added that "talks about the country must be preceded by arrangement to the internal Palestinian positions, fighting corruption and keeping the human rights."

In answering on the negotiations concerning the critical causes like Jerusalem that form an achievement for the Palestinian side, Sheik Yassin said "any progress in the Palestinian cause is an achievement and this one is important yet we refuse any concessions and the settlements and Jerusalem as well as the refugees must come back. We also refuse dividing the cause to simple points for that the whole must be carried out and not the parts, saying that Jerusalem is an Islamic and Arabic as well as being Palestine's capital which is an occupied land that is dear to us for it is a part of the Moslems' dogma and we will not accept changing the history."

He added that "Jerusalem can not be in the trash basket, not for sale or trade and not for nationalization and we absolutely refuse any of these ideas because it must by under the Arab and Islamic domination."