NABLUS (PIC)– Hamas Movement has warned the Arab countries on Sunday not to be deceived or dragged into the Israeli trap that aims at normalizing ties with them at the expense of the Palestinian people’s legal rights.
The Movement also accused the Israeli occupation government of alleging that the Arab peace initiative which was recently endorsed by the Arab summit in Riyadh was unclear in a bid to go in direct contacts with the Arab world.
“The Zionist entity hides malicious intentions by declaring foggy stands on the Arab initiative with the aim to deceive the Arab world and to drag it into the trap of gratis normalization” a spokesman of Hamas in the West Bank charged.
The spokesman furthermore explained that the Israeli stand on the Arab peace plan was very clear as it was described by former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon as “not worth the ink it was written with”.
He also underlined that Israeli premier Ehud Olmert’s attempts to court Arab countries were “political maneuvering” that was purposely made to free the Israeli occupation government of any obligation towards the initiative and to transform it into a “complete normalization program with the Arab world”.
“The Arab leaders mustn’t be deceived by those Israeli tricks and they should always remember that tanks of Sharon had trampled the initiative one day after it was endorsed in Beirut when IOF troops swept and reoccupied the West Bank in 2002” the spokesman moreover asserted.
Few hours before he met with PA chief Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied city of Jerusalem on Sunday Olmert alleged that he would feel happy if Israel could engage Arab countries in direct talks to deliberate the initiative.
Prior to the conclusion of the Arab summit in the Saudi capital Riyadh last month the USA and Israel exerted tremendous pressures on a number of Arab countries to amend the initiative and to design it in a way “acceptable” to Israel; but the clear Palestinian rejection of any amendment foiled those efforts.
