Kaddomi: Hamas’s path is the right one

PIC

[ 19/12/2009 - 11:25 PM ]

AMMAN, (PIC)-- The veteran Fatah leader Farouk Kaddomi said on Saturday that the path of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, proved to be the right one, adding that certain foreign parties have convinced a number of Palestinian parties to abandon the armed resistance.

In an interview with the Jordanian Al-Ghad newspaper, Kaddomi noted a number of crucial points on the nature of the Palestinian path, stressing that the armed resistance was and still is the only way to retrieve the usurped Palestinian legal rights and to remove the occupation out of the Palestinian land.

He underlined that there was no essential difference between Hamas and Fatah although he acknowledged that certain Palestinian parties were deceived by foreign parties and that they were convinced to abandon the armed resistance and to engage in “futile” negotiations with the Israelis.

Although Kaddomi acknowledge the “good intentions” of US president Barack Obama, he opined that the US administration lacks the political will to pressure the Zionist entity to end the occupation.

In this regard, Kaddomi underlined that the Israeli settlements must be dismantled and not only frozen, calling on his Fatah comrades in Ramallah’s authority to abandon the “fruitless” negotiations with the Israelis, and to return back to path of armed resistance that Hamas Movement leads.

On the other hand, Kaddomi called for a comprehensive national dialogue involving all Palestinian parties under the umbrella of a new elected national council in order to achieve the national reconciliation, describing the PLO’s national council decision to extend term of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas as “deceptive”, stressing that heeding the call of Abbas to hold elections at this point of time would deepen the Palestinian rift further.

In another context, Kaddomi refused to confirm or deny reports speaking on Palestinian-Lebanese agreement on the Palestinian weapons outside the Palestinian refugee camps, but he noted that any agreement in this regard must be reached between the Lebanese government and a delegation representing the Palestinian factions, and that it must be limited to Palestinian weapon outside the refugee camps and not inside them.