Mesha'al says Obama kept General Dayton as a repressive authority in the West Bank,  discusses Obama's new language with Carter

  [ 11/06/2009 - 10:23 AM ]

CAIRO, (PIC)--

Khaled Mesha'al, the head of the Hamas political bureau, said Wednesday that US President, Barack Obama, kept a repressive authority against the Palestinians in the West Bank when he asked Keith Dayton to remain in his post as a supervisor of the PA-Israeli security coordination.

In a press statement, Mesha'al said that Obama spoke about democracy in his speech to the Islamic world last Thursday, but he contradicted himself when he imposed Dayton on the Palestinians because he represents a suppressive authority in the West Bank.

He said that despite Obama’s use of a new language different from his predecessor George Bush’s administration, the point is not only in changing the speech tone, but in the action taken on the ground, adding that both Arabs and Palestinians expect Obama to implement what he declared regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The political leader of Hamas pointed out that Obama ignored in his speech Israel’s last war in Gaza and its judaization crimes in the West Bank.

The Hamas leader also slammed Obama for comparing the situation of the Palestinian cause to what happened to the blacks in America and South Africa in the past, explaining that in Palestine, there is occupation which must be confronted with resistance, but the case with US and South African blacks was a struggle for civil rights.

As for his recent visit to Egypt, the Hamas leader stated that he went to Cairo at the invitation of Omar Suleiman, the director of Egyptian intelligence, noting that Suleiman expressed his understanding of what happens in the West Bank and promised to work hard to eliminate the security obstacles to the national dialog.

Mesha'al discusses Obama's new language with Carter

[ 11/06/2009 - 09:57 AM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)--

Hamas political bureau chairman Khaled Mesha'al is to discuss with former US president Jimmy Carter on Thursday in Damascus the latest speech of US president Barack Obama in Cairo.

A reliable Palestinian source told PIC that the meeting would tackle numerous other questions including the new "language" used by Obama in addressing the Islamic world.

The source, noting that the meeting is the third of its kind, said that this meeting follows Carter's promise that he would convey Hamas's views and stands towards various issues to the Obama administration.

He noted that the Mesha'al-Carter meeting also precedes Carter's expected visit to the Gaza Strip.