Het was natuurlijk te verwachten dat Hamas op deze manier roet in het eten probeert te gooien. Wat ik echter nog steeds moeilijk kan begrijpen is dat dergelijk gedrag voor sommige mensen het bewijs vormt dat Hamas serieus moet worden genomen en moet kunnen meepraten. Dus hoe misdadiger je opereert, hoe serieuzer men je moet nemen en hoe meer invloed en zeggenschap men je moet geven?
Overigens was het al een helse toer voor de VS om Abbas naar de onderhandelingstafel te krijgen, en Hamas heeft consequent gezegd niet met de goddeloze Joden van de zionistische entiteit te willen praten. De populariteit van Hamas in de Gazastrook is flink afgenomen sinds zij er aan de macht is; en het lukt Israel en de PA tot nu toe aardig om haar macht op de Westoever in te dammen. Er is dus geen enkele reden om Hamas voor haar geweld te belonen, en te suggereren dat zonder haar erbij te betrekken vrede onmogelijk zou zijn. Het is eerder omgekeerd. Vrede en Hamas sluiten elkaar vooralsnog uit.
RP
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Hamas vows to continue attacks
Published yesterday (updated) 02/09/2010 20:27
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Attacks by Hamas' armed wing will continue "in any form and in any place," including inside Israel and in Gaza, a spokesman said Thursday.
The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for killing four settlers in a drive-by shooting near Hebron on Tuesday evening, and for injuring two Israelis in a similar attack by Romodin Junction near Ramallah a day later.
Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida said the second attack was "a slap in the face" for those who said the deadly shooting near Hebron would not be repeated.
Abu Obeida said the Ramallah shooting was timed "according to field circumstances" but added that it conveyed a message to negotiators who "conceded and went along with the forces of the occupation and made their efforts to chase the resistance fighters in the wake of the heroic Hebron attack."
Following the shooting in Hebron, Palestinian Authority security forces launched an arrest campaign in Hebron. At a press conference in Gaza on Thursday Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri accused the PA of arresting 550 of the Islamist movement's affiliates.
Abu Zuhri reiterated Abu Obeida's insistence that the attacks would continue, and said the shootings in Hebron and Ramallah were "an evidence of the option of resistance and its resolve" in the face of security coordination between Israel and the PA.
At the same press conference, Hamas leader Fawzi Barhoum said the success of the two attacks, despite security coordination, demonstrated that "any gambling on eliminating resistance will lose."
The attack in Ramallah came as US President Barack Obama welcomed President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, DC, a day ahead of the first session of direct peace negotiations in 20 months.
Speaking after the Hebron attack, Obama said the "senseless slaughter" would not derail peace talks. "And so the message should go out to Hamas and everybody else who is taking credit for these heinous crimes that this is not going to stop us."
Responding to Obama's message, Abu Obeida said the president's stance was expected but that "Al-Qassam does not gamble on the stances of the United States."
The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for killing four settlers in a drive-by shooting near Hebron on Tuesday evening, and for injuring two Israelis in a similar attack by Romodin Junction near Ramallah a day later.
Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida said the second attack was "a slap in the face" for those who said the deadly shooting near Hebron would not be repeated.
Abu Obeida said the Ramallah shooting was timed "according to field circumstances" but added that it conveyed a message to negotiators who "conceded and went along with the forces of the occupation and made their efforts to chase the resistance fighters in the wake of the heroic Hebron attack."
Following the shooting in Hebron, Palestinian Authority security forces launched an arrest campaign in Hebron. At a press conference in Gaza on Thursday Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri accused the PA of arresting 550 of the Islamist movement's affiliates.
Abu Zuhri reiterated Abu Obeida's insistence that the attacks would continue, and said the shootings in Hebron and Ramallah were "an evidence of the option of resistance and its resolve" in the face of security coordination between Israel and the PA.
At the same press conference, Hamas leader Fawzi Barhoum said the success of the two attacks, despite security coordination, demonstrated that "any gambling on eliminating resistance will lose."
The attack in Ramallah came as US President Barack Obama welcomed President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, DC, a day ahead of the first session of direct peace negotiations in 20 months.
Speaking after the Hebron attack, Obama said the "senseless slaughter" would not derail peace talks. "And so the message should go out to Hamas and everybody else who is taking credit for these heinous crimes that this is not going to stop us."
Responding to Obama's message, Abu Obeida said the president's stance was expected but that "Al-Qassam does not gamble on the stances of the United States."
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