Haniya: Those rejecting national dialogue will realize they were mistaken

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[ 22/07/2007 - 09:43 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The prime minister of the legitimate Palestinian Authority (PA) caretaker government Ismail Haniya has reiterated his Movement's assertion on unconditional inter-Palestinian dialogue to resolve the political impasse in the Palestinian arena.

Haniya’s remarks were uttered as he addressed hundreds of new graduates of the Islamic University in Gaza Strip Saturday, affirming, “We will remain faithful to the Cairo and Makkah agreements, and we shall never turn our back to them”.

“Those rejecting the national dialogue will sooner or later realize that they were wrong”, added Haniya amidst overwhelming applaud from the audience.

Furthermore, Haniya urged the “free and honorable” men of Fateh faction to exploit the current political developments in the Palestinian arena, and to bring their faction back to the national track after it was hijacked by a “suspicious” trend within it.

“We are advocating national dialogue but we will not beg for it; yet we will not relax our call for national dialogue in spite of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and his retinue’s continued rejections for such calls”, the premier underlined.

He also highlighted that his government and Hamas Movement were and still are respecting the Palestinian legitimacy that, he said, couldn’t be divided.

“We respect the PA legitimacy that couldn’t be divided, and as others (in allusion to Abbas) were democratically elected, we (Hamas Movement) were also democratically elected and derived our legitimacy from the martyrs’ blood and not from the enemy”, he underscored.

Furthermore, Haniya deplored allegations parroted by Hamas’s detractors in the Palestinian arena that the Movement was unilaterally monopolizing the political, financial, and security aspects in Gaza Strip, emphasizing that his government rules Gaza Strip in its capacity as the legitimate government that was democratically elected by the Palestinian people, and “didn’t come atop US or Israeli tanks”.

However, Haniya welcomed the participation of any Palestinian party in administering the country so as to collectively shoulder the Palestinian national burden.

“There is no truth to allegations of political monopoly or political arrests in Gaza Strip, and we again and again affirm that what had happened in Gaza Strip was a necessary step”, the premier furthermore asserted.

A number of Fateh leaders in Gaza Strip and in the PLO in addition to the great majority of the Palestinian people had hailed Hamas’s military action in Gaza Strip against the mutiny trend of Fateh MP Mohammed Dahlan and his associates.

The PA government is relentlessly working for restructuring the PA security apparatuses based on national agenda away form factionalism or foreign agenda, Haniya confirmed.

He also rejected any solution based on the political vision of US president George W. Bush, saying that the Palestinian state that Bush is calling for is of unknown borders.

Hence, he vowed adherence to the Palestinian national constants, explaining that the Palestinian people will continue their quest for freedom and independence despite the harshness of that road.

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