Haniyah Reveals Israeli Attempts to Sabotage Palestinian-Egyptian Releations

Haniyah accuses US, Israel, Arabs of conspiracy

Published today (updated) 29/01/2010 19:58

Gaza – Ma'an –

Giving a Friday sermon Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah accused the Arab world of using leaked reports from Israel to rally the Egyptian street against the people of Gaza.

Speaking at the Al-Omary Mosque in Jabaliya, Haniyah outlined two reports allegedly printed in the Arab world last week.

One, he said, discussed the resettlement of Palestinians in the Sinai under a land swap deal for a two-state solution, and a second apparently alleged that a Palestinian in Cairo was involved in urging Egyptian officials to continue building the Gaza subterranean border wall.

Haniyah was vague on the origins of the reports, neither of which appeared in Arab mainstream news media over the past week.

The de facto leader insisted throughout his speech that the alleged reports were "false" and "from Israeli sources," adding that the de facto government would refuse resettlement in the Sinai or any other lands that were not part of historic Palestine.

Haniyah also talked about the internal and external conspiracies against the tenth government and the legislative council, elected in 2006, during the last four years.

"We were exposed to a three-dimensional war, economically by imposing the siege on the people of Gaza, militarily by attacking the people and committing crimes which are mostly represented in the war on Gaza, and politically as the occupation started to detain lawmakers and the representatives of the Palestinian people in order to undermine the Palestinian legitimacy and democracy," Haniyah said.

Moreover, Haniyah contested "we were exposed to a three-dimensional conspiracy which first was by trying to spread chaos, the second by objections and not committing to jobs, and the third was defamed and media incitement, dissemination of falsehoods and rumors, and creating facts that are not true.”

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