Mesha'al says Palestinian constants should not be compromised

[ 08/05/2009 - 03:26 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Khaled Mesha'al, the head of Hamas's political bureau, said Thursday that no one is entitled to compromise the Palestinian national constants or negotiate them, warning that no solution to the Palestinian issue would pass at the expense of those constants.

He also made it clear that Hamas Movement wouldn’t accept less than what had been agreed upon by all Palestinian factions in 2006, and as stipulated in the "national harmony document" , stressing that the Palestinian land isn’t for sale nor is it for bargaining.

These remarks were made in a televised message addressing a rally organized in Gaza city in commemoration of two Hamas leaders Said Siyam , the late PA interior minister, and Dr. Nizar Rayan who were assassinated by the IOF troops during the monstrous Israeli war on Gaza last January.

During his speech, Mesha'al confirmed that the resistance was his Movement's strategic option to liberate Palestine, and to enable the Palestinian people exercise their legal rights that were usurped by the Israelis since 1948.

"The resistance is a legitimate right of the Palestinian people as long as the occupation persisted, and thus, no one has the right to block the Palestinian people from arming and defending themselves' underlined Mesha'al.

Moreover, he made it clear that his Movement wouldn’t compromise the resistance option under any circumstances, underscoring, "we are steering the resistance, and we have many options in this regard".

"The cause of the problem is not the rockets fired from Gaza, but rather it is in the Israeli aggression, the persistent settlement activities, the apartheid wall, and the judaization of the Palestinian land," Mesha'al pointed out.

Finally, Mesha'al underlined that his Movement was and still is striving hard to achieve the Palestinian national reconciliation, and to restore the Palestinian national unity; but he urged Fatah faction and the Ramallah-based PA leadership to get rid of the foreign influence and dictates that, he stressed, derail all the efforts in this course.

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