Last Modified: 03 Sep 2010 18:03 GMT
Hamas has said that 'resistance' will follow despite efforts in Washington to reach a peace deal
Hamas fighters have threatened to carry out a new wave of attacks against Israel after Palestinian and Israeli leaders relaunched direct peace negotiations in Washington.
Leaders for Hamas said 13 different armed groups, including themselves and Islamic Jihad, will join forces to launch "more effective attacks" against Israel. The call on Thursday came after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister held their first direct talks in nearly two years at a US-sponsored summit in the US capital.
'Useless' talks
A spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, rejected the talks on Friday, describing them as "useless". Abu Obaida made the statement at a brief news conference in Gaza City, where he was flanked by several other masked men in army fatigues.
"We reject completely the slipping again from the Ramallah Authority to the useless round of negotiations, which make a cover for the Zionist aggression against our people," Obaida said. He also said that "resistance" would follow. "We will not allow these negotiations to pass over, and resistance will have its loud voice as an answer to the land-selling negotiation," he said.
Netanyahu and Abbas have been holding talks with the US administration, assisted by Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, and King Abdullah II of Jordan.
On Thursday, Netanyahu and Abbas agreed to keep talking and produce a framework for a permanent peace deal. Sabri Saidam, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council in Ramallah, told Al Jazeera that the Fatah central committee supported direct talks provided they yielded "just and positive results".
"Two decades of negotiations that have yielded no results certainly create some atmosphere of concern, which does not extend to Palestinian factions only, but extends rather to within Palestinian society at large. So don't expect unanimous support for such talks," he said.
"These negotiations cannot go on without the inclusiveness of the Palestinian factions at large. For any peace formula to prevail it has to win the consensus and the comprehensive support of all factions in its entirety."
Abbas 'in trouble'
But Ahmed Yousef, Hamas' deputy foreign minister, told Al Jazeera that the Palestinians were not behind Abbas. "This is not the right way to hold talks; we know Abbas is in big trouble. He has to be following the dictation from the Americans to come to Washington and unfortunately the Arabs that were backing him [are] being co-opted by the US," he said.
"Abbas is not doing the right thing and that's what most of the Palestinians have said."
Hamas is in control of the Gaza Strip, one of the two territories that are supposed to be part of a future Palestinian state. It wields virtual veto power over any agreement and has given no indication it will accept a deal with Israel reached by Abbas, who runs a rival government in the West Bank.
Abbas has repeatedly said he will present any peace deal to a national referendum, a vote that will include the people of Gaza. A vote in favour of peace will apply heavy pressure on Hamas to accept the will of the Palestinian people.
Thursday's comments by Hamas come after the shooting of four Israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman, near the West Bank city of Hebron. Hamas has claimed responsibility for the killings.
Palestinian resistance factions vow more effective attacks against occupation
[ 03/09/2010 - 09:19 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian resistance factions in occupied Palestine have hailed Thursday the attack on the Israeli occupation in Al-Khalil and Ramallah cities in the West Bank on Tuesday and Wednesday, considering them as natural retaliation to Israeli crimes against the Palestinian citizens there.
"The armed attacks on Israeli occupation in Al-Khalil and Ramallah won't be the last but rather the spark of more coming attacks", said the armed wings of 13 Palestinian resistance factions led by Hamas Movement in a press conference they held in Gaza city on Thursday.
Abu Obaida, the spokesman of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stressed that the Palestinian resistance has entered a new stage of joint resistance action and high level of military coordination in the field.
He also emphasized that the coming armed attacks against the Israeli occupation and armed Israeli settlers would be more effective and more painful, rejecting the "futile" negotiations between Fatah authority in Ramallah and the Israeli occupation that, he said, give legitimacy and provide political cover to the Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people.
The factions also vowed not to let "selling of the Palestinian land by Abbas and his retinue" pass, considering the Fatah acceptance to go to direct negotiations with the Israelis as "stab" in the flange of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian blood, and martyrs.
Moreover, the factions welcomed the actions taken by the legitimate PA government of Ismael Haneyya in Gaza Strip against local collaborates, stressing that the government must strike hard on them.
Furthermore, the factions condemned the "frenzied and unethical" arrest campaign against supporters of the resistance factions in the West Bank at the hands of Abbas's security forces there, vowing they won't remain silent towards such unpatriotic behavior of those forces.
In this regard, the factions called on Fatah faction not to sink in the swamp of the negotiation, and to return back to the resistance path before it is too late.
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According to DesertPoison: Those 13 resistance factions "DO NOT speak or act on behalf of the Palestinian people. Only Israel wants the ‘Peace Process’ to fail, only zionism itself benefits from such actions". THEY BETRAYED PALESTINE
If those 13 resistance factions DO NOT speak or act on behalf of the Palestinian people, and if "Mahmoud Abbas represents the Palestinian people as much as Sarah Palin represents the Americans.", which is true, and if "the parties involved in these talks represent the same points of view…. that of Israel.", which is also true, then who speak and act on behalf of the Palestinian people??
Most likely it is the Hasbara outlets spreading the low calorie Zionist Poisoned Honey
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