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| Abu Zuhri: Mishaal to meet Abbas in Damascus |
| 2004-12-05 |
| Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas Movement media spokesman in the Gaza Strip, has declared that Khaled Mishaal, political bureau chief of the Movement, would meet PLO executive committee chairman and PA presidential-hopeful Mahmoud Abbas in Damascus. Abu Zuhri in a press statement said that the Mishaal-Abbas meeting would tackle national dialogue, political partnership, unified leadership and the PLO as a possible grouping for all Palestinians. Hamas considers the PLO as an accomplishment for the Palestinian people that should include all Palestinian forces after restructuring it on the basis of the Palestinian people's real interests, he elaborated. The Hamas spokesman stressed that his Movement did not table any new initiative as certain media were trying to circulate. "Hamas has nothing new on the Hudna (truce) issue and the time was not proper to table any such initiative on our part," he explained. Abu Zuhri affirmed that such an initiative could be considered only after the Zionist occupation authorities halted the daily aggression on the Palestinian masses. He noted that news reports quoting Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the recently released Hamas leader from Zionist jails, was not carried in full. The Sheikh only reiterated past ideas about a Hudna, Abu Zuhri noted, adding that the Palestinian forces could never ponder such a truce while the Zionist aggression was ongoing. |
| Posted by:Fred |