Hamas does not seek to prevent Fatah to conduct peace negotiations with Israel, assured a senior leader of Palestinian Islamist movement Thursday, April 28, following an agreement between the two rivals on the formation of Palestinian government . Mahmoud Zahar, a leader of the Islamist group in Gaza said that Hamas remained on the same line: "no recognition (of Israel), no negotiation." But he added that the movement would not try to prevent Fatah of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to seek a peace agreement with Israel.
"If Fatah is ready to assume the responsibility for negotiating on nonsense, it does. If they can get a state, good for them." "We did not see what was going to be a peace process, and therefore we did not participate," he added, referring to more than two decades of negotiations that gave the Palestinians limited autonomy in West Bank and Gaza, but did not end the conflict.
Zahar said the transitional government that the two Palestinian factions have agreed to form a whole will have no mandate to negotiate with Israel. Wednesday, April 27 meeting in Cairo, the enemy brothers of the Palestinian movement, Fatah of President Mahmoud Abbas, who administers the West Bank and Hamas ruling Gaza, have agreed, to general surprise, to form a transitional government to presidential and legislative elections within a year.
Palestinian factions will be convened at the end of next week in Cairo to sign this agreement which provides, inter alia, the release of "political prisoners", said Mr Zahar on Al-Jazeera satellite channel. According to him, it was decided to convene simultaneous presidential, legislative and the Palestinian National Council (the PLO parliament) within a year, and form a judicial commission of twelve judges to settle disputes related to elections.
Mahmoud Zahar also said that agreement had been reached on the reunification of the security forces between Fatah and Hamas, one of the main bones of contention between the two movements. Information has strongly reacted Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. "The Palestinian Authority must choose between peace with Israel and peace with Hamas.
It can not be peace with both because Hamas seeks to destroy the State of Israel and said openly" said Mr. Netanyahu, who has voted repeatedly against reconciliation between the rival Palestinian movements. Hamas (whose acronym means "Islamic Resistance Movement"), considered a "terrorist" organization by the U.S., EU and Israel refuses to recognize Israel.
"I think the idea of reconciliation shows the weakness of the Palestinian Authority and creates the prospect that Hamas could take control of Judea and Samaria," he said in reference to the West Bank. "I hope that the Palestinian Authority will make the right choice: peace with Israel," he said.
"In response to the remark of Mr. Netanyahu, we say that the Palestinian reconciliation and agreement reached today in Cairo are an internal Palestinian matter," replied the spokesman of the President of the Palestinian Authority (Fatah) Nabil Abu Rudeina. He called the Israeli prime minister has "choose between peace and the settlements." Recently, the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused Hamas of blocking reconciliation under Iranian influence.
"I want to go to Gaza, but they do not want me to go," then told Mr. Abbas, the Fatah leader, referring to his proposal, launched in March to come to Gaza to seal the reconciliation. "Iran directed them to do this or that, and they obey in exchange for the money they receive." Hamas at the time rejected these accusations.
Hamas has in the past raised the possibility of considering a long-term truce with Israel. Winner of the 2006 parliamentary elections, the Islamist movement took power in Gaza a year later, following a week of bloody urban warfare with Fatah. Direct negotiations between Israel and Fatah, which sits in the West Bank were closed a few weeks after their return in September, due to a dispute over Israel's continued colonization.
Since then they have stalled and President Abbas is seeking recognition by the United Nations of a Palestinian state whose borders are pre-1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. 
"If Fatah is ready to assume the responsibility for negotiating on nonsense, it does. If they can get a state, good for them." "We did not see what was going to be a peace process, and therefore we did not participate," he added, referring to more than two decades of negotiations that gave the Palestinians limited autonomy in West Bank and Gaza, but did not end the conflict.
Zahar said the transitional government that the two Palestinian factions have agreed to form a whole will have no mandate to negotiate with Israel. Wednesday, April 27 meeting in Cairo, the enemy brothers of the Palestinian movement, Fatah of President Mahmoud Abbas, who administers the West Bank and Hamas ruling Gaza, have agreed, to general surprise, to form a transitional government to presidential and legislative elections within a year.
Palestinian factions will be convened at the end of next week in Cairo to sign this agreement which provides, inter alia, the release of "political prisoners", said Mr Zahar on Al-Jazeera satellite channel. According to him, it was decided to convene simultaneous presidential, legislative and the Palestinian National Council (the PLO parliament) within a year, and form a judicial commission of twelve judges to settle disputes related to elections.
Mahmoud Zahar also said that agreement had been reached on the reunification of the security forces between Fatah and Hamas, one of the main bones of contention between the two movements. Information has strongly reacted Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. "The Palestinian Authority must choose between peace with Israel and peace with Hamas.
It can not be peace with both because Hamas seeks to destroy the State of Israel and said openly" said Mr. Netanyahu, who has voted repeatedly against reconciliation between the rival Palestinian movements. Hamas (whose acronym means "Islamic Resistance Movement"), considered a "terrorist" organization by the U.S., EU and Israel refuses to recognize Israel.
"I think the idea of reconciliation shows the weakness of the Palestinian Authority and creates the prospect that Hamas could take control of Judea and Samaria," he said in reference to the West Bank. "I hope that the Palestinian Authority will make the right choice: peace with Israel," he said.
"In response to the remark of Mr. Netanyahu, we say that the Palestinian reconciliation and agreement reached today in Cairo are an internal Palestinian matter," replied the spokesman of the President of the Palestinian Authority (Fatah) Nabil Abu Rudeina. He called the Israeli prime minister has "choose between peace and the settlements." Recently, the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused Hamas of blocking reconciliation under Iranian influence.
"I want to go to Gaza, but they do not want me to go," then told Mr. Abbas, the Fatah leader, referring to his proposal, launched in March to come to Gaza to seal the reconciliation. "Iran directed them to do this or that, and they obey in exchange for the money they receive." Hamas at the time rejected these accusations.
Hamas has in the past raised the possibility of considering a long-term truce with Israel. Winner of the 2006 parliamentary elections, the Islamist movement took power in Gaza a year later, following a week of bloody urban warfare with Fatah. Direct negotiations between Israel and Fatah, which sits in the West Bank were closed a few weeks after their return in September, due to a dispute over Israel's continued colonization.
Since then they have stalled and President Abbas is seeking recognition by the United Nations of a Palestinian state whose borders are pre-1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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