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Hamas advocates formation of a national unified leadership
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, last night organized a rally at the Zaitun suburb in Gaza city to honor relatives of the martyrs who fought the Zionist incursion into the suburb more than a month ago. Dr. Ahmed Bahar delivered a statement on behalf of the Hamas Movement affirming that the tens of thousands, who arrived to the rally, voiced insistence on steadfastness and patience in defense of national lands and holy shrines. He vowed that the Movement would do whatever it could alongside Palestinian philanthropists to assist in rebuilding what the Zionist terrorist forces had destroyed. The Zionist army wanted to break the Palestinian people's determination through its invasion of the Zaitun suburb but the Qassam Brigades (Hamas military wing) were at the forefront, led by commander deader martyr Wael Nassar and the deader martyr commander Mohammed Sarsor, to fight them back, he elaborated.

Bahar recalled that Hamas Mujahideen blasted the Zionist armored personnel carrier that killed six soldiers. The Hamas leader urged all Palestinian factions to unite in the trench of resistance, adding that any strike against the enemy would add to the accomplishments of Jihad and resistance. Bahar described the Zionist premier Ariel Sharon's withdrawal plan from the Strip as a 'big deception' meant to drag Palestinian and Arab parties into the trap of aborting the intifada, wiping out resistance, stabilizing occupation and shifting the struggle into the Palestinian arena. Sharon's evacuation plan was a security project that did not take into consideration the Palestinian people's rights of return, self-determination, independence and sovereignty, he explained. He noted that Zionist redeployment scheme stipulated retaining Zionist control on crossings and ports in addition to allowing the Zionist forces to violate sovereignty of Gaza via land, air or sea whenever it wished. He advocated the formation of a unified national leadership to face such challenges grouping all national and Islamic factions on the Palestinian arena.
Under... ahem... Hamas leadership, of course.
Bahar underlined that the withdrawal should not be in return for any political Palestinian or Arab price or at the expense of Palestinian national rights. He affirmed that the Palestinian people refused the return to the bitter experience of prosecuting, chasing, arresting or disarming Mujahideen.
Posted by: Fred 2004-06-13
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=35413