Weer een aanbod van Hamas om met Abbas te gaan praten, maar het is duidelijk dat er geen sprake is van enige matiging van Hamas' zijde: de Zionistische vijand moet worden verslagen, Abbas verkwanselt Palestijnse belangen en zijn regering moet vertrekken.
"No Arab country has asked Hamas to give up on the current situation in Gaza," Meshaal said, adding the government of Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad should "go."
Integendeel, Egypte en Saoedi-Arabië legitimeren de Hamas regering door er deals mee te sluiten, op te roepen tot een einde aan de boycot van Hamas en tot Palestijnse eenheid. Een krachtig signaal van de Arabische staten voor Abbas en tegen Hamas zou waarschijnlijk meer impact hebben dan het standpunt van de VS en andere Westerse landen.
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Hamas ready for unconditional talks with Abbas: Meshaal
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Hamas ready for unconditional talks with Abbas: Meshaal
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The exiled political chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement reiterated in a Friday speech he was ready to talk unconditionally with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
"We are ready for an unconditional dialogue in which all issues will be discussed, including that of bringing forward elections. I say to the leaders of Fatah that our differences are political," Khaled Meshaal said, in a speech in Damascus on the 20th anniversary of the founding of Hamas.
On Monday, Abbas said he wanted to "open a new page" with Hamas if it gave up control of the Gaza Strip, which it took forcibly in mid-June last year from forces loyal to the secular Palestinian president.
The following day, senior Hamas official Mahmud Zahar said the movement welcomed dialogue, but he adamantly rejected the conditions Abbas set for talks aimed at halting the factional struggle.
"No Arab country has asked Hamas to give up on the current situation in Gaza," Meshaal said, adding the government of Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad should "go."
"Our people must stop this government from selling off Palestinian interests," he added of the administration that in effect governs in the West Bank only, and accused it of hounding Hamas members.
"Hamas will resist until the last Israeli soldier leaves Palestinian soil," Meshaal said. "This is a strategic choice. Resistance will continue -- no one can stop it."
He denied there had been contacts between the Islamist movement and "the Zionists who are our enemies," and said Hamas had turned down a European proposal for such a meeting to discuss ways of calming the situation.
He denied there had been contacts between the Islamist movement and "the Zionists who are our enemies," and said Hamas had turned down a European proposal for such a meeting to discuss ways of calming the situation.
"Gaza is starving and surrounded but it is still resisting," Meshaal said. He called upon "Arab leaders to take a courageous decision in order to lift the embargo" on the impoverished territory.
The Islamist leader also said an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militant groups in a cross-border raid on June 15, 2006, would not be freed unilaterally.
"We will not free Gilad Shalit unless our prisoners are released" by Israel, he said.
"We will not free Gilad Shalit unless our prisoners are released" by Israel, he said.
Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC) and representatives of other Damascus-based Palestinian militant movements also attended Friday's meeting marking the Hamas anniversary.
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