The militant Hamas movement said Thursday that Palestinian president-elect Mahmud Abbas was not empowered to reach a ceasefire with Israel. The senior leader of the terrorist movement, Mahmoud al-Zahar told movement's website that Hamas will not hand over its arms to the Palestinian Authority. "No one can take away our arms from us, as long as there is occupation," he said. | "Just ask our late great leader Rantissi! Nobody took his arms from him by Allan, though his torso got blown into the next county!" |
Abbas, elected Palestinian president Sunday, has said that instead of cracking down on the militant organizations, as the international community demands, he will instead seek a dialogue with them to persuade them agree to a ceasefire. Al-Zahar's remarks came a day after the two terrorists members of the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad movement killed an Israeli settler and wounded three soldiers, before being killed themselves, in an attack on Israel's southern Gaza Strip Morag settlement. "We will demand Abbas protect the Palestinian people from the Israeli attacks," he said. | Sharon, please deal with this mutt. |
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