PA won't disarm Hamas, Islamic Jihad

From the Jerusalem Post:

Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced on Monday that they have reached an agreement with the Palestinian Authority according to which the two groups would not be disarmed.
The agreement was reportedly achieved during talks in Damascus between PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Qurei met Sunday night in Damascus with leaders of various radical groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and discussed ways of cooperating with them after implementation of the disengagement plan is completed.

Sources close to the two groups said Qurei made it clear that the PA would not confiscate the weapons of any of the armed groups in the Gaza Strip.

Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader based in Syria, said the meeting was held in a "cordial atmosphere" and that the two sides agreed that the Palestinians should have a joint strategy after disengagement.

"We stressed during the meeting that the Palestinians have the right to continue the resistance [against Israel] and that there would be no attempt to collect weapons from the resistance groups," he said.

"The weapons of the resistance were founded to defend the Palestinian people and resist the occupation," he added. "The Gaza victory was achieved with the weapons of the resistance, which is the only strategy to drive Israel out of the rest of our lands."

Qurei met earlier with Syrian President Bashar Assad and discussed with him the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank...

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5 Comments

William The Crusader | August 23, 2005 8:45 PM

I didn't think they would ever honor their committments of the Road Map to Peace. Oh well, Lock and Load Israel. Looks like The sons of mo are wanting another ass whoopin. And this time may I suggest you expel the ones that are left living out of Israel and back into AllahLand from whence they came. F'em, F'em all!

dolphin | August 23, 2005 11:52 PM

Here's what Abu Marzouk says: "We stressed during the meeting that the Palestinians have the right to continue the resistance [against Israel] and that there would be no attempt to collect weapons from the resistance groups," he said. "

Apparently, Qurei didn't resist much. As a Muslim, he can't go against his own brothers and sisters, for in doing so he would violate one of the basic teachings of the Qu'ran. Even so, he doesn't really need to do this. The 'progressive world' and Europe especially will gladly forget about their pet's obligations under the Road Map. It seems that it is only Israel who must make endless concessions.

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Vancouver | August 24, 2005 3:32 AM

The Palestinian so-called Authority is not capable of disarming Hamas, and PIJ has in the past assassinated PA members who got in their way. Arafat understood this, else he would not have lived as long as he did.

Kemaste | August 24, 2005 10:12 AM

The only thing that matches the outrageous lies told repeatedly by the MURDERERS OF PEACE is the smug naivete of the left who can't wait to congratulate themselves on being the masters of peace -- at any cost.

What I witnessed in Gaza, Neve Dekalim would never be done to the 'Poor Palestinians.'

Throw 30 year Palestinian residents out of the homes they were encouraged to move into? Rip the sons and daughters who died defending them from their graves? Destroy their homes and houses of worship? NEVER! Never would this be done to murdering fanatics even after peace treaties with Palestinians produce more dead after "peace" than 15 years prior.

Along Highway One in Jerusalem concrete barriers were erected because Palestinians shoot at Israelis from their hilltop homes. Do you think it would enter the governments mind to go up and tear those houses down? No! Barriers go up instead.

Palestinians, Islamofacists -- they do what they say they are going to do. They don't say they are going to gut your children without making a concerted effort to do so. They say they will die trying -- and they do. What do their victims do? We rub their backs, massage their shoulders give them billions of dollars smile, show our soft white underbelly and hope they don't tear our fingers from our hands as we give it to them.

rachamim18 | August 24, 2005 4:28 PM

Some newsflash. HAMAS's stated goal is to not only totally destroy Israel and all that support it, but to kill every Jew as well. Their Charter states quite clearly that not only do the Jews control the world media, and world banks, but they have been responsible for each and every war since the French Revolution. In their words, "Jews are evil."

Islamic Jihad of course has proudly clamied responsibility for both murderous attacks that have taken place during the current so called "truce.

Of all the 23 plus armed and illegal militant groups operating within PA controlled land, ALL state that their objective is to totally destroy Israel...not throw off a supposed "occupation." That really says it all.

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