30 March 2009

The Hamas Movement stated Monday that the Arab leaders face a new test regarding the Arab issues in general and the Palestinian cause in particular, highlighting that the Israeli measures committed in Gaza and the judaization schemes targeting occupied Jerusalem are two issues of concern to the Arab and Islamic nation.

In an exclusive statement to Al-Bayan website, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stressed the need for tangible Arab positions effectively translated on the ground to protect the holy city and its people from judaization and displacement.

For his part, Dr. Yahya Mousa, a member of Hamas parliamentary bloc, played down the importance of the Arab summit held in Doha, saying that this summit does not represent any qualitative addition but a quantitative addition to the previous summits.

In an exclusive statement to same website, Dr. Mousa underlined that the PLC does not demand the Arab summit anything because it is able to do nothing especially since the Arab Nation lost its weight and dignity among other nations and its image became discreditable.

The lawmaker added that the Arab Nation could restore its weight and dignity and force the Israeli occupation and the US to respect it, but there is no Arab regimes working on that because all of them think of how to maintain their powers and satisfy the US and Israel.

In the same context, the Islamic Jihad Movement called on the Arab summit to consider the interests of the Palestinian people away from any international conditions and support their steadfastness according to an integrated national vision guarantying a continuation of the national liberation project, the restoration of usurped rights and the protection of holy places.

In a statement received by the PIC, Islamic Jihad called on the Arab leaders to adopt the decisions taken in the Gaza emergency summit held in Doha particularly with regard to the withdrawal of the Arab peace initiative as well as a defense strategy to support the resistance especially with the imminent formation of a new extremist Israeli government.

Haneyya asks Arab leaders to implement previous summit resolutions on Gaza siege

Meanwhile, Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya has asked the Arab rulers to implement former summit resolutions concerning the siege on Gaza and to demand the trial of Israeli war criminals.

Haneyya in a televised address to the Arab summit on Sunday night asked the Arab countries that still maintain relations with Israel to sever those ties.

"Waiting is no longer acceptable and we ask for implementation of what previous summits had approved," he underlined, adding, "The siege has claimed the lives of hundreds of patients and paralyzed life in the Gaza Strip".

Shifting to the internal Palestinian dialog, he opined that there was still a chance to solve pending questions away from foreign intervention.

"We agree to a unity government that would re-build institutions, prepare for the elections, break the siege and stabilize internal conciliation," Haneyya elaborated.

The premier asked the summiteers to pay more attention to the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails and to exert greater efforts to ensure their release.

He finally asked the Arab heads of state to protect Jerusalem from judaization and incessant attempts to forcibly evacuate its indigenous inhabitants and to activate the issue of Palestinian refugees at international platforms.