Khaled Mishaal, political bureau chief of the Hamas Movement, has affirmed that Zionist premier Ariel Sharon's declaration of his intention to evacuate the Gaza Strip was a success to Palestinian resistance.
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He told Quds Press in an interview that resistance was the only method capable of liberating lands, regaining national rights and freeing prisoners. Mishaal underlined that resistance made the protection of Netsarim settlement in the Strip more costly than the protection of the Demona nuclear reactor. He said that Sharon should not be given any political price in return for his withdrawal from the Strip or any part of the West Bank. The Hamas leader affirmed that the declaration on the part of a number of Movement officials on readiness to forge a new hudna (ceasefire) in return for Zionist withdrawal to the pre 1967 borders was not a kind of political bargaining. He affirmed that the offer was meant to ascertain that resistance was linked to the presence of occupation. The Palestinian Authority and the Fatah Movement should realize the changes in the balance of powers of various factions and should allow the participation of other forces in the Palestinian decision-making, the Hamas leader pointed out. Meanwhile, Mishaal warned that the holy Aqsa Mosque was in real danger of partial or complete demolition. He asked the Arab and Muslim governments and masses to take heed of Zionist conspiracies against the third holiest site in Islam. |