Meshaal: Hamas serious about reconciliation


mashaal-jamHamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Mashaal emphasized on Friday that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement is serious about national reconciliation involving all Palestinian factions. Hamas is doing its best to remove all obstacles in front of National reconciliation, the Movements’ statement delivered to media quoted Mashaal as saying. National reconciliation is Hamas’ only option; he said reiterating that for reaching a reonciliation the other side should leave reliance on foreigners and conditions of the Quartet Committee “which tries to pave the way of Israel recognition.” He said the recent group’s meeting in Damascus had focused on the need of preventing any conflict in the West Bank and urged the security services affiliated to the Palestinian Authority not to prosecute or arrest Resistance fighters. He also called for bringing an end to the internal disorders in Palestine and said rejecting the 2006 elections’ results by opposition parties, Mahmoud Abbas and his followers, led to the conflicts between Hamas and Fatah. He said he was dissatisfied with the Palestinians having one government in the West Bank and another one in the Gaza Strip. “There should be a National Unity Government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a national consensus pursuant to the rules of democratic game,” he said. Denouncing the remarks made by the Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu regarding Palestinian rights as audacious, Hamas official said the movement is conducting effort to reveal the Zionists’ greedy and racist policies. At another part of his remarks, Mashaal reaffirmed support for Egyptian efforts to put an end to inter-Palestinian splits and divisions and to advance reconciliation moves.