[ 18/02/2011 - 03:58 PM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy-head of Hamas's political bureau, said on Thursday that the Egyptian paper proposed for Palestinian national reconciliation is no longer valid after the revolution in Egypt ousted Mubarak's regime.
The paper, according to Hamas, was full of vague items that forced the Movement to raise a number of reservations on it but the deposed Egyptian regime insisted that Hamas should sign it without further changes.
"Dealing with the Egyptian paper at this point of time isn’t possible after the dramatic political changes in Egypt that toppled the regime of Husni Mubarak, and I think it is about time for the Palestinian people in the West Bank to move against the practices of Abbas's authority there", said Abu Marzouk in an interview with the PIC.
He added that the big political changes in Egypt will have a strong impact on the entire Arab world, especially the Palestinian issue, and thus, the way we should deal with the Egyptian paper should also change in light with the compromises the PLO made as far as the Palestinian legal rights are concerned.
"We think that a big change would occur on the Egyptian foreign policies especially in dealing with the Palestinian issue, and therefore, the consultations on how to deal with the PLO's compromises will take different dimensions", the Hamas official underlined.
Reacting to calls by certain quarters affiliated with Fatah faction urging the people of Gaza to revolt against Hamas, Abu Marzouk said:" Revolution is good if it indeed expressed the people's will, but in Gaza only dozens heeded the call that indeed indicates that there was no popular will to revolt against the legitimate government".
He underscored that the West Bank which is under the Israeli occupation and which has been torn up by occupation roadblocks, in addition to the presence of an oppressive Palestinian authority that fights the Palestinian resistance, is in need of popular movement although there are such movement needs additional factors for it to surface.
Furthermore, Abu Marzouk linked the political developments in Tunisia and Egypt in addition to the secret documents published by Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel on the Palestinian Authority betrayal of the Palestinian people's legal rights and constants put the PA an unpleasant position that made it to escape forward and take preemptive steps including calling for general elections and the resignation of Saeb Erikat, the former chief PLO negotiator, describing such step as "tranquilizers" to the Palestinian people.
In this regard, Abu Marzouk explained that the fact the PA in the West Bank lacks credibility and legitimacy making it ineligible to conduct general elections, and the fact that the Palestinian political division is still unresolved, in addition to the internal struggle between Fatah faction and the PA and within Fatah itself make the election process practically impossible.
Abu Marzouk further said that his Movement supports holding elections being a popular obligation but he stressed that the elections must be conducted in a better atmosphere to ensure credibility, transparency, and honesty.
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