[ 09/05/2010 - 05:01 PM ]
DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Hamas said that the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) construction of 14 new housing units in Ras Al-Amod suburb in occupied Jerusalem directs another slap to the Oslo team in Ramallah.
The movement said in a statement on Sunday that the construction of those new units in the heart of occupied Jerusalem at a time the "futile negotiations" started affirmed Hamas's warning that returning to negotiations was in service of the IOA and its colonialist schemes.
It said that the negotiations would only help the IOA in beautifying its image before the world, which started to view Israeli occupation as racist.
Hamas urged the PLO's executive committee and the Arab follow up committee that gave the green light for resuming talks with the IOA to backtrack on their decision and to stop wagering on illusionary American promises and failed political projects.
Peace Now: Israel building 14 new housing units in OJ
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli leftist movement Peace Now said in a report that Israel has started building 14 new housing units in Ras Al-Amod neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.
It added that around 1,900 Jewish settlers were currently residing in 120 buildings in the Palestinian suburbs in eastern Jerusalem.
For its part, the Israeli-controlled municipality of Jerusalem said on Sunday that Arabs and Jews are entitled to live in any suburb of the "capital" and to purchase buildings wherever they want.
The announcement coincided with the initiation of indirect talks between the PA in Ramallah and the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) after the USA verbally pledged to freeze all IOA settlement projects in occupied Jerusalem.
[ 09/05/2010 - 05:54 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Yousef Rezka, the political advisor to premier Ismail Haneyya, has said that the resumption of indirect talks with the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was a waste of time.
He told the PIC on Sunday that there are no guarantees regarding those talks, adding that the return to indirect talks was an Israeli idea tabled by the USA.
For his part, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said that Fatah and its leader Mahmoud Abbas were exercising political deception on the Palestinian people regarding the negotiations and relations with Israel.
He told the PIC that the announcement of building tens of housing units at the same time when the resumption of talks were approved means that the negotiations were meant as a cover to enable the IOA to persist in its crimes especially judaization and settlement building.
Abu Zuhri added that the step also proves that the talk about freezing settlement construction in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank was baseless.
Palestinian political analyst Hani Al-Masri told the PIC that the resumption of indirect talks was a "mistaken step" because it took place without an Israeli approval of Arab and Palestinian demands.
The step was only meant as face-saving to retain the illusion that the peace process is still alive while Israel is gaining time to complete its schemes.
He added that the Palestinian negotiator was put in a cage and could not get out of it even if he so wished.
Hamas MP in Ramallah Mahmoud Musleh expressed surprise at the PLO acceptance of returning to talks without any response to halting the settlement activity.
He advised the Ramallah authority not to race behind the American mirage and to allow resistance against occupation in the West Bank and end the inter-Palestinian division. He said that negotiations with the IOA over the past 18 years had proven their failure and entailed only more destruction for the Palestinian people and cause.
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