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Abbas meets occupant’s premier Olmert

Hamas Movement has scathingly deplored the anticipated meeting between PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli premier Ehud Olmert in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday, and described the meeting as "futile".

The two spokesmen of Hamas in Gaza Strip Fawzi Barhoum and Ismail Redwan affirmed, "Hamas attaches not a bit of hope on those meetings, especially that it knows that such meetings aim at pressuring the Palestinian party into bowing to the Israeli security demands".

Redwan, for his part, said that those meetings had brought no good to the Palestinian people, and that they pushed the Palestinian question backward.

"The Zionist enemy aims at deceiving the international community and pretending that it was concerned with achieving peace and stability in the region while in fact the deeds it carries out on the ground prove otherwise", Redwan underlined.

In this regard, Redwan urged the Palestinian people as well as the PA presidency and government to preserve national constants and never be deceived by the Israeli political tricks.

Barhoum, on the other hand, opined, "The meeting will be of no benefit to the Palestinian people as it will only focus on security matters concerning Israel".

He also urged Abbas not to surrender to external dictates, describing wagering on a just US stand towards the Palestinian people as an "illusion".

"In these [Abbas-Olmert] meetings, the release of captured IOF serviceman Gilad Shalit is discussed, but the release of more than 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the crucial issue of occupied Jerusalem are never discussed", Barhoum, moreover, underscored.

In addition, Barhoum accused the Israeli occupation government of "showing a favorable face to the world, while dealing with Palestinian people in an aggressive manner through relentless arrest and house-demolition campaigns".

Source: PIC