Bardawil: Hamas pays no attention to threats of Al-Ahmad
[ 09/08/2009 - 04:29 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas legislator Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil said on Sunday that his Movement isn’t worried about the threats uttered by Fatah MP Azzam Al-Ahmad, describing such threats as a reflection of collaboration with Israeli occupation authority (IOA).
In a televised interview on Saturday night at the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite TV, Al-Ahmad castigated Hamas and threatened to take action against the Movement and the besieged Gaza Strip.
Bardawil strongly reacted to Ahmad’s threats, asking him to identify the party he was speaking in its name if it is Fatah or the PA.
“We have heard such kind of threats in the past many times, and we believe that Ahmad’s threats aren’t worth the airtime they were broadcasted, and Hamas isn’t worried about those threats”, the Hamas’s leader underlined in a press statement.
He also commented on Fatah’s endorsement of Mahmoud Abbas as the faction’s supreme leader saying that it indicated the fragility of Fatah, and that it was no longer a national Movement.
No to armed resistance:
[ 09/08/2009 - 04:29 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas legislator Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil said on Sunday that his Movement isn’t worried about the threats uttered by Fatah MP Azzam Al-Ahmad, describing such threats as a reflection of collaboration with Israeli occupation authority (IOA).
In a televised interview on Saturday night at the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite TV, Al-Ahmad castigated Hamas and threatened to take action against the Movement and the besieged Gaza Strip.
Bardawil strongly reacted to Ahmad’s threats, asking him to identify the party he was speaking in its name if it is Fatah or the PA.
“We have heard such kind of threats in the past many times, and we believe that Ahmad’s threats aren’t worth the airtime they were broadcasted, and Hamas isn’t worried about those threats”, the Hamas’s leader underlined in a press statement.
He also commented on Fatah’s endorsement of Mahmoud Abbas as the faction’s supreme leader saying that it indicated the fragility of Fatah, and that it was no longer a national Movement.
No to armed resistance:
Meanwhile, the spokesman of Fatah’s sixth conference in Bethlehem Nabil Amr shrugged off statements of a number of Fatah leaders participating in the congress that Fatah still adheres to the option of armed resistance and rejects the “futile” negotiations with Israel, saying that such statements don’t reflect Fatah’s real choice.
“Fatah now follows a political line through the PLO and through the PA, and the Israelis are aware of this trend, and if there are statements issued in support of the armed resistance by some Fatah leaders here and there, I think they shouldn’t be magnified or taken seriously”, asserted Amr in a press conference in Bethlehem.
He also rejected the remarks of Israeli war minister Ehud Barak that Fatah’s stands were similar to those of Hamas, saying, “Fatah is a real force of peace”, adding that Fatah’s “resistance” would remain within the “boundaries of the international legitimacy”.
“We [in Fatah] didn’t change… we are ready to sit for negotiations with Israel at any time, and all issues are subject for negotiations”, Amr highlighted, underlining that “it is up to the Israelis to identify the structure and identity of their state”.
“We recognize Israel, and Israel is the one that specifies the form of its state”, he added.
But contrary to the soft language he spoke with regarding Israel, Amr issued fiery statements against Hamas Movement, and accused it of “committing a massacre against the Palestinian democracy”.
Hamas won a landslide victory in the PA legislative elections in 2006 before Fatah circumvented the outcome of the elections and put obstacles in Hamas’s path.
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