Hamas Rebuffs Blair’s
Allegations
Quartet Links Rebuilding Gaza With Ceding
Palestinian Rights
By MEM
February 18, 2015 "ICH"
- "MEM"
- Senior member of Hamas’ political bureau
Mousa Abu-Marzkouk yesterday revealed that
Quartet peace envoy Tony Blair is trying to
blackmail Hamas in return for reconstructing
the Gaza Strip.On
his Facebook page, Abu-Marzouk revealed five
conditions put by the Quartet that Hamas has
to meet in order to make way for the
reconstruction of what the Israeli
occupation destroyed during last summer’s
51-day war in Gaza.
Abu-Marzouk said: “Once
again, and in the name of the international
community, Tony Blair is exploiting the
tragedy made by the Israeli occupation that
includes the destruction of homes and making
people homeless.”
Expressing deep concern
about the devastated people in Gaza, Abu-Marzouk
said: “Destroyed homes of Palestinians in
Gaza became shrines to Blair and his likes.
Blair says that there is no reconstruction
unless these five conditions are fulfilled,
and Hamas has to agree to:
- Accept the
Palestinian reconciliation.
- Accept the political
programme based on a Palestinian state
on 1967 borders.
- Reiterate that Hamas
is a Palestinian faction with only
Palestinian goals and it is not part of
any Islamist movement with regional
goals.
- Adopt the two-state
solution as a final, not temporary,
solution for the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict.
- Send an assurance
message to Egypt that Gaza is not a
terror base for Sinai terrorists and
hold talks with the Egyptian government
to stop terrorism in Sinai.”
“These are the conditions
for Hamas to be accepted by the
international community as well as the
Quartet’s conditions for rebuilding Gaza and
improving living standards,” Abu-Marzouk
said.
He added: “These
conditions do not mean that Hamas will deal
with the Zionist enemy; not even one
condition was put on Israel.”
Abu-Marzouk refuted the
conditions one by one. Regarding the
reconciliation, he said: “It was achieved. I
do not know what more is needed from Hamas,
which conceded everything for a technocrat
government.”
About the state on the
1967 borders, he said: “The problem is not
with the Palestinian side, but with the
other side. Blair should have spoken about
it with Israel. He should have asked it
whether it accepts a Palestinian state on
the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its
capital and whether it accepts to dismantle
settlements.”
Regarding Hamas’s goals,
he stressed that Hamas is a Palestinian
faction with Palestinian goals and it is not
part of a regional Islamist movement. “We
know that he means the Muslim Brotherhood,”
he said.
“This is used by all as a
pretext,” he stressed. “Hamas is a
Palestinian movement and its history proves
that as it has not carried out any of its
operations outside the Palestinian lands.
Even when its leaders were targeted outside
Palestine, it did not respond in the same
places.”
Meanwhile, he reiterated
the importance of Hamas having links with
any side offering help for it. “We have no
interest to have hostility with any party
wherever it is and whatever the ideological
differences with it are,” he said.
About the two-state
solution, Abu-Marzouk said: “Blair knows
that any oppressive agreement cannot remain
alive for too long. Any agreement imposed by
the current powers cannot remain the same
when these powers change.”
Regarding Egypt, he
explained: “Egypt is not merely a
neighbouring country; its stability and
unity are in the Palestinian interest. We
deal seriously and responsibly with anyone
who harms Egypt. Gaza will absolutely not be
a breeding ground for terrorism.”
Adding that Hamas’s
relationship with Egypt is not of Blair’s
concern.