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| Abbas, Haniyeh Congratulate Mursi | |||
| 2012-06-25 | |||
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... and President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... congratulated Muhammad Mursi on his victory in Egypt's presidential elections on Sunday. Moslem Brüderbund candidate Mursi was declared Egypt's first democratic president by the state election committee, which said he had defeated former general Ahmed Shafik with 51.7 percent of last weekend's run-off vote. Haniyeh phoned Mursi to congratulate him, and supporters marched to the prime minister's home in Gazoo City to celebrate the victory.
In Gazook streets, the jubilation recalled that which greeted Hamas' shock victory in Paleostine's 2006 elections, as thanksgiving sermons and calls of "Allahu Akbar" echoed from mosques across the enclave and sweets were handed out in the street. One man was killed and five injured in celebratory gunfire, a front man for Gazoo's Health Ministry said. Paleostine's ambassador to Cairo Barakat al-Farra and President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas also phoned Mursi to congratulate him on his presidency. Abbas, who has pursued stop-start peace negotiations with Israel, had warm words for the Moslem Brüderbund, calling Mursi "the choice of the great people of Egypt". Fatah leader Amin Maqboul told Ma'an he hoped Egypt would regain its status as a regional leader and that the Egyptian people would "unite against challenges, especially Israel's continuous aggression against our people."
Hamas, Fatah's longtime rival, has close ties with the Moslem Brüderbund and the groups share ideological roots, but Maqboul said he hoped Egypt would support Paleostinian rights "and treat all sides equally." Maqboul, secretary-general of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, said Fatah had never linked reconciliation with Hamas "on foreign agendas or with the internal Egyptian situations." "We will continue our efforts to end the split ... We will wait and see what the days will bring. Right now we cannot talk about Egypt's role but we wish Egyptians and Egypt to live in prosperity," Maqboul said. Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... , a senior Abbas aide and negotiator, said the democratic vote for Mursi "meant the Paleostinian cause was the number one priority for all Egyptians". But Erekat said Paleostinians had to heal the five-year-old and sometimes bloody schism between Hamas and Fatah. "Regardless of who the Egyptian president is, Paleostinian reconciliation is a Paleostinian matter, and if we do not help ourselves, no one will," Erekat said. | |||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 If Nasar and Sadat couldn't do it how the hell could a religious fruitcake take down Israel? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2012-06-25 00:35 |