 Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, one of the Hamas Movement prominent leaders in the Gaza Strip, has affirmed that the newly elected PA president, Mahmoud Abbas, had no authorization to halt anti-occupation resistance.
Zahhar, besides being a big fat guy, is one of the intact members of Hamas' politburo, so this'd be pretty authoritative... |
Zahhar, in a press statement yesterday, said if Abbas was in need of such authorization he should ask the Palestinians in the diaspora and not only in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. "More than half of our people are living in the diaspora," Zahhar explained, arguing that the PA presidential election was meant to choose a president for that Authority, and not for the Palestinian people, in order to run internal affairs. The Hamas official affirmed that his Movement would table with the elected president the honor charter, which it drafted over the main questions of Jerusalem, refugees, occupied lands and relations with the Zionist entity and the Arab countries in addition to certain questions on fighting corruption, media campaign against resistance, educational issues and evacuated settlements. Zahhar denied that Hamas was planning to surrender its arms to the PA, adding that his Movement would ask Abbas who would protect Palestinians in face of the recurrent occupation incursions.
| I'd guess that when there's a Paleostinian state, there'd also be a Paleostinian army, which would also be capable of crushing Hamas. |
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