Arab League Disses Hamas
Arab League ‘betraying’ Palestinian people by agreeing to take part in upcoming peace conference says Hamas
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas on Saturday condemned a decision by Arab powers to endorse next week’s U.S.-hosted Israeli-Palestinian peace conference, saying the talks would favor the Jewish state’s policies rather than Palestinian demands.
Islamist Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel and broke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after seizing control of the Gaza Strip in a June civil war, is excluded from the November 27 conference in Annapolis, Maryland.
Arab League ministers agreed on Friday to attend the conference in the hope of promoting the creation of a Palestinian state and pushing for Israel to return the occupied Golan Heights to Syria as part of a regional peace process.
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri called the announcement “a great shock for Palestinians because it opened the door for direct normalization with the occupation (Israel) amid (its) continued escalation and aggression”.
“The Palestinian people had awaited an Arab consensus for breaking the siege,” Abu Zuhri said in a statement, referring to a Western aid embargo and Israeli military crackdowns on Gaza since Hamas swept to power in 2006 elections.
“This meeting will only achieve more failure and more harm to the Palestinian cause and to Arab and Palestinian rights.”
Saudi Arabia, long a Hamas patron, has said it will come to Annapolis despite having no formal ties with Israel. Syria, which hosts Hamas’s foreign headquarters, wants clarification on the conference’s agenda before it decides whether to attend.
The Arab League has offered Israel recognition if it quits lands captured in a 1967 Middle East war and agrees to solving the Palestinian refugee problem. Israel has balked at discussing “core issues” like refugees and borders at this stage.
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What a trip. Whabbiists dissing irhabis. LOL Isn’t the pot trying to call the kettle black?
No amount of land for peace will quench the desire of irhabis and their supporters. Their desire is to push the Jews into the sea or to kill them outright.
Since they cannot defeat Israel in open combat, they are once again going the hudna route.
And this from a group of people who collectively continue to teach their people thus:
“In an audiocassette reportedly imported from Saudi Arabia and distributed in the Palestinian territories, a popular Saudi lecturer presents Jews as “the sons of monkeys and pigs” who “make practices of deception.”
“Allah will punish the infidels and the conspirators, concludes the Saudi sheik at the end of the taped lecture. ”
The West is suffering from a really bad case of CRI (Cranial Rectal Inversion)with dellusions of Jimmy Koh-tair.
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