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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas trying to replace PLO's role: official
2010-09-21
Yar! It's the PLO's job to be murderous and obstructionist, not those Muslim Brotherhood upstarts in the Gaza Strip! (Although we call ourselves the Palestinian Authority now, and let our more earnest members play at being a real government, 'cause that's what brings in the money these days.)
(Xinhua) -- A Paleostinian official on Monday accused the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement of trying to introduce itself to the international community as an alternative to the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Member of the PLO Executive Committee, Hanan Ashrawi, told Voice of Paleostine radio that Hamas "is trying to open dialogue with the United States and European countries by several means in order to gain legitimacy and the recognition of the United States. "

She pointed out that the PLO recognizes the Hamas as part of the general Paleostinian political system. "Hamas should behave like part of the Paleostinian system as a whole and not as an alternative to the PLO," Ashrawi added.

The Paleostinian people "do not de-legitimize Hamas, yet Hamas behavior turned the international positions against it," Ashrawi said.

On Sunday, Gazoo's Hamas rulers said they had sent a letter to the U.S. administration, seeking a contact channel with Washington, which classifies the Islamic movement as a terrorist organization.

In a statement, the secretariat-general of the Hamas government said the letter urged the U.S. "to open a mutual dialogue and end the double standards the U.S. administration uses in dealing with the Paleostinian cause."

The letter also demanded that the B.O. regime "lift its veto on Paleostinian reconciliation." Hamas accuses Washington of pressuring President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement not to reconcile with Hamas, though Fatah had accepted an Egyptian plan to bury the hatchet with the Islamic movement.
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