Supreme Hamas Leader Mashaal runs the Show from Damascus!
February 5, 2007
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There has never been any question that the Hamas Supreme Leader Khaled Mashaal, is
the one who calls the shots in the Majority Hamas Palestinian Authority government in Israel.
If he is still alive when a false peace finally comes to Israel, he will have been deceitfully involved in it. He calls the shots from his protected headquarters perched in the city of Damascus.
It will be very interesting to see what comes out of the Mecca Summit on Tuesday. Mashaal is desperate to end the bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah, and might moderate his harsh position toward peace with Israel to stop it.
However, Mashaal is already preparing a secondary plan of deceit if the Mecca Summit fails. In the second article, it appears he is setting the stage for a new series of riots, like the ones that began over the Temple Mount when Israeli Prime Minister Sharon visited it during the tenure of Yasser Arafat, which marked the beginning of the 2000 intifada. If he can turn all the terrorist groups toward shedding Israeli blood in an intifada, it will end the civil war between Fatah and Hamas.
Begin the First Article from the Jerusalem Post
Hamas, Fatah hopeful on Mecca Summit
Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 4, 2007
Hamas and Fatah representatives on Sunday expressed hope that the upcoming summit in Saudi Arabia between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal will end the fighting between the two parties and result in the formation of a PA unity government.
Meanwhile, a cease-fire announced between the two parties on Saturday appeared to be holding in the Gaza Strip
as Fatah and Hamas militiamen refrained from street fighting.
However, PA security officials reported that some incidents of violence, including mutual kidnappings, continued. They said among those kidnapped was Ashraf Dahlan, a 20-year-old nephew of senior Fatah operative Muhammad Dahlan, a sworn enemy of Hamas.
Fatah and Hamas representatives who met late Sunday agreed to withdraw all their gunmen from the streets
and rooftops, deploy PA policemen in sensitive areas and release all those who were abducted.
The agreement was announced in the presence of Egyptian mediators Burhan Hamad and Ahmed Abdel Khalek.
Abbas and Mashaal are scheduled to meet in Mecca on Tuesday at the invitation of King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz. PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will participate in the discussions along with Ghazi Hamad, Hamas’s government spokesman; Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon; and Ahmed Bahar, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Abbas will be accompanied by former PA prime minister Ahmed Qurei and Fatah legislator Azzam al-Ahmed.
The summit will be the second of its kind in the past few weeks.
At the previous summit between Abbas and Mashaal in Damascus, the two failed to resolve their differences over the formation of a unity government, triggering a new wave of violence in the Gaza Strip.
“We must not fail this time,” Mashaal told reporters in Damascus on Sunday. “It is forbidden to shed Palestinian blood and there are limits that should not be trespassed. We belong to one people and share the same cause.”
Abbas urged Hamas and Fatah gunmen to halt the fighting and direct their guns against Israel.
“We must unite the Hamas and Fatah blood in the struggle against Israel as we did at the beginning of the intifada” he said. “We want political partnership with Fatah and we are not only optimistic, but also very serious about this, and that’s why we are going to Mecca.”
Issa al-Nashar, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, said he was very optimistic about the prospects of the summit.
“The two sides are very close to striking a deal on the unity government,” he said. “They have resolved 96 percent of the sticking issues.
The only dispute is over the identity of the deputy prime minister, who will be from Fatah.”
Nabil Amr, a top Fatah official and adviser to Abbas, expressed hope that the summit would consolidate the latest cease-fire.
“A political agreement between the two sides will put an end to the bloody events in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “Without such an agreement, the situation will continue to deteriorate.”
Fatah spokesman Jamal Nazal said he was less optimistic.
“I’m not aware of any significant progress regarding the formation of a unity government,” he said. “We were close to reaching such an agreement before the last cycle of violence. But today the unity government issue is still being regarded as a remote, if not impossible, mission.”
Hamas’s armed wing, Izaddin Kassam, issued a three-day ultimatum to the gunmen and security officers who stormed the Islamic University in Gaza City last Thursday to surrender or face the consequences of their actions.
“Anyone who surrenders before next Wednesday will not be harmed,” said a statement issued by the group. “We want to give a chance to all those who were involved in this murderous scheme before it’s too late.”
Hamas has accused Abbas’s security forces of attacking the university and setting many of its departments on fire.
The attack came hours after Hamas gunmen seized a number of trucks that were allegedly carrying weapons to Abbas’s Presidential Guard in the Gaza Strip.
In Ramallah, Fatah gunmen went on a rampage inside the offices of the Hamas-run Ministry for Prisoners Affairs and stole the personal computer of its minister, Wasfi Kabaha.•
Begin the Second Article from the Jerusalem Post
‘Israel playing with fire if hits Aksa’
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 4, 2007
Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal lashed out at Israel on Sunday for an assault that allegedly took place Sunday on a road in Jerusalem’s Old City called the Magharbeh, or Moroccans’ Road.
The assault, he claimed, would make it easier for IDF troops to attack the revered Al-Aksa Mosque and other Islamic sites nearby in the future.
“Israel, who today is playing with fire when it touches Al-Aksa, knows the consequences of this playing with fire,” Mashaal said.
He also called on Palestinians in Jerusalem and everywhere to launch a “comprehensive, popular and continuous action to defend the Al-Aksa Mosque and Jerusalem.”
Mashaal warned Prime Minister Ehud Orlmert that this action would mimic the riots that erupted after former prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aksa compound in 2000.
“Olmert must learn the lesson … the Israeli military and security command must learn the lesson of Sharon who sparked the intifada,” Mashaal said.
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