GAZA (PIC)– MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardaweel the spokesman of Hamas’s parliamentary bloc in the PLC has described the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit between PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli premier Ehud Olmert as “weak shaky and futile”.
Egyptian president Husni Mubarak and Jordan’s monarch Abdullah II also attended the said summit Monday.
Bardaweel stressed the importance of inter-Palestinian dialogue saying that Palestinian-Palestinian discussion is the best way for dealing with the current standstill in the Palestinian political process.
“It is clear that the four leaders were having contradicting views as anticipated by Hamas Movement; yet history will not move backward and thus inter-Palestinian dialogue is the best mean to resolve inter-Palestinian disputes” the Hamas’s legislator underlined.
The spokesman welcomed Egypt’s call for dialogue among the disputing Palestinian parties saying that Egypt has its own strategy that doesn’t intersect with the Israeli occupation policy as it (Egypt) always championed inter-Palestinian dialogue to resolve political rows.
But he lashed out at Abbas’s speech in the summit opining that Abbas’s stand was weak and lacks a number of important cards because he abandoned more than one-half of the Palestinian people.
Abbas described Hamas Movement as “backward Movement” and rejected to engage in any dialogue with it despite Hamas’s repeated calls on him to sit with it and to discuss all pending issues and disputes.
“The leader who describes more than one-half of his people as backward will find no one to respect his views or speeches and thus all Abbas’s appeals for Israel and the quartet committee were weightless and will go in vain” Bardaweel underlined.
Moreover Bardaweel shrugged off Olmert’s speech affirming that the man failed to present any vision for a political solution and thus he added there will be no political horizon at least for the near future.
He also undermined Olmert’s promises to Abbas describing such pledges as “priceless bribes” aimed at widening the rift between Fatah and Hamas.
Olmert had promised to convince his occupation government to approve the release of 250 Fatah-affiliated captives in Israeli jails and whom their hands weren’t “stained with Israeli blood”.
