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Palestinian Prime Minister meets former US President Carter in Ramalla... Jun 14 09 Abbas to present Obama with a plan to resolve Middle East conflict May 07 09 U.S. Envoy rejects demand that Hamas "recognize Jewish state" Apr 19 09 Latest News ArticlesIsraeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula. 11:01 Sat 04 Jul Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home 10:24 Sat 04 Jul Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryHamas: Abbas does not represent usAs the so-called ‘peace summit’ is set to begin in Annapolis, in the U.S., on Tuesday, the elected leadership of the Palestinian people, the Hamas party, challenged the right of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to represent the Palestinian people.
"The Land of Palestine ... is purely owned by the Palestinians. No person, group, government or generation has the right to give up one inch of it. Anyone who cooperates with the occupation is a traitor," said senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahhar in a speech to the 2,000 attendees of a Hamas-led ‘counter-summit’ in Gaza Monday.
The Palestinian people elected the Hamas party to lead the legislature and form the Palestinian government in January 2006, but their leadership was never accepted by the U.S. and Israel – despite the fact that the election was free and fair, and called a ‘model of democracy in action’.
The deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya was one of the signatories of a document on Monday condemning the Annapolis summit and Abbas’ role as ‘representative’ of the Palestinian people. Haniyya reiterated that Abbas does not have a right to give away a single inch of Palestine.
Israel has pushed the Palestinian Authority, with Mahmoud Abbas at its head, to recognize Israel as an exclusively Jewish state – a recognition that would preclude the internationally-recognized right of return for the millions of Palestinian refugees displaced by Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made this recognition a precursor of any ‘agreement’. But Abbas, unlike his precursor, the late Yasser Arafat, is not the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, only of the Israeli-created Palestinian Authority. Therefore, according to the Palestinian constitution, he is not the recognized representative of the Palestinian people. |