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| Palestinians demand 'right to resist' clause in pact |
| 2009-10-16 |
| Hamas along with the Damascus-based Palestinian resistance groups have rejected the Egyptian proposal for a unity deal unless it mentions the right of Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation. "The Egyptian reconciliation proposal lacks a political vision concerning the conflict (with Israel) and the aggression against our people," said the spokesman for Palestinian groups based in Damascus, Khaled Abdel Majid, quoted by AFP on Thursday. "The Palestinian factions will not sign the accord... unless the text includes the principles and the rights of Palestinians, especially that of resisting the Zionist occupation," he went on to say. "We urge all Palestinian groups and national personalities to act rapidly and take the measures necessary to preserve the Palestinian cause from the dangers that threaten it, and to insist on the historic rights of our people." Khaled Abdel Majid also noted that the deal proposed by Egypt should also address the dangers of 'Judaization' and 'permanent aggression,' which threaten al-Quds (Jerusalem), as well as the right of return for the Palestinian refugees. Hamas and Fatah have long been wrangling with each other over substantial discords that have led do real bottlenecks in mending fences and repairing the internal Palestinian divisions. Meanwhile, Egypt has been struggling for months to get rival Palestinian factions to sign a reconciliation deal. The latest Cairo proposal aims to lay the groundwork for new presidential and legislative elections next summer. Ever since Hamas won an outright majority in 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, the two factions have pursued bitter rivalry featuring sporadic fighting and tit-for-tat arrests. Mutual hostilities boiled over in the summer of 2007, when Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from the Fatah faction. Since then, Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip, while Fatah has continued to control the West Bank from Ramallah. Further complicating the situation, Israel and Egypt, with the blessing of the Palestinian Authority, have both sealed their borders with the Gaza Strip, effectively cutting off the coastal enclave from the rest of the world. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 See also WAFF > HAMAS REFUSES TO RECONCILE WITH AL FATAH UNLESS IT CAN ATTACK ISRAELIS; + MUSLIMS FLOODING INTO ISRAEL TO SEEK ASYLUM FROM THIER OWN PEOPLE [INFILTRATION vee ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION deemed a DE FACTO STRATEGIC THREAT TO ISRAELI GOVT-STATE, espec illegals via EGYPT + SINAI covert routes]??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-16 20:23 |
| #7 Isn't Kabuki getting awfully old? |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-10-16 18:23 |
| #6 I still find that my peace plan is pure genius: there can be no peace when one of the parts has no incentive to it. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-10-16 09:47 |
| #5 Doesn't whether it's foolish or not depends on what the goals of the donors are, JFM? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-10-16 09:40 |
| #4 Golda Meir told that here would peace when Arabs would love their children m!ore than they hatyed Jews. Deda wrong! There will be peace when we cut off all of our funding and requre they refund every single penny we gave them in the last sixty one years on the basis they have diverted our money to questionnable ends. Not to mention interests. Not to mention paying ten bill for security due to Palestinne terrorrsm. This way: 1) Arab countries and the oh so volatile Arab street who are supoposedly in love of Palestinas but deny them work, nationality and exple them towards Gaza would have to beazr the burden of feeding them so they would have an interest in solving the problem. 2) Palestinains would have to work for a living and by the end of the day would be too tired to think in anything buit to sleep. Anyone remembers when they set fire to the grrenhouses left by the Israelis and then came for additional fuding for their, oh so miserable condition? I do. I do and I find taht more than sixty years on West's tit is more than enough 3) Every Kassam built would mean tighten their belt another notch since we wouldn't be putting teh bills for their basic needs (money id fungible). Of course if they fire it they would have to pay for teh disruption of Israelmi life. If it hits something then pay damages and not single cent for reconstruction if the Israelis have enough and bomb the crap out of them. 4) There are Palestinain women who say they want to have loooooots of children and make suicide bombres out of them. Notice that we foot the bll so whatever her number of children she can put bread on the tabme. Well no more. She would have to choose between butter and suicide bombres. 5) It is immoral we are throwing far more money on such people than we are throwing on peopel who sufer a lot more, aren't trying to genocide their neighbours and haven't spent 61 years on our teat. Oriental Jews got no UN (tthat is ihn fact our) money and they aren't in refugee camps, neither Grek Cypriots. It is immoral we reb throwing money on the Paestinians instead of on Sudanese blacks. They say, that a fool is the one who tries twenty times the same thing, keeps failing and keeps trying the same thing. WXell, for sixty one years we have pressured Israel to make concessions and there was no peace. let's pressure the Arabs for concessions for a change. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-10-16 08:07 |
| #3 I hope Palestinians in the territories would generally respond with, "Go ahead and resist all you want over in Damascus. We have to actually LIVE here, you idiots!" |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2009-10-16 05:22 |
| #2 More like "Right to murder innocent Jewish civilians in cold blood". |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-10-16 04:28 |
| #1 You mean "Right to Persist"? |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-10-16 02:01 |