Arab League Chief Mousa Says Resistance Is The Only Other Option To Peace Process

18 May 2009

AMMAN, (PIC)-- Amr Mousa, the Arab League Secretary General, on Sunday asserted that the real danger in the Middle East region was the Zionist nuclear program and warned that 2009 is the last chance for peace in the region.

Mousa addressing a seminar on future of peace in the Middle East, which was held on the sidelines of the world economic forum in Jordan, said that the Arab countries would not table their initiative for ever.

Asked what the Arabs' option was if the initiative was not accepted, he said that there was no other option but resistance.

The Arab top official said that majority of Arabs do not find any danger in the Iranian nuclear program, adding, "Why should we engage in a debate with Iran on nuclear issues and forget about a similar issue with Israel".

He affirmed that the real danger from a nuclear military threat comes from Israel and not Iran, adding, however, that the Middle East was not in need of any additional military nuclear program.

Israel remains tight-lipped regarding its nuclear program, which media and intelligence sources estimated had reached the manufacture of nuclear warheads long time ago, and that Israel is now in possession of 200 nuclear warheads at least that could be fired from the ground and sea.

Israel is threatening to strike Iranian nuclear facilities in what it called a preemptive strike. Mohammed Al-Baradei, the director of the international atomic energy agency, had warned that attacking Iran would be a big foolishness.

Hamas refuses to get dragged into waiving Palestinian rights

MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman for the Hamas parliamentary bloc, stated Sunday that his Movement balances between the need for ending the internal rift, and not getting dragged into the square of waiving the Palestinian rights and falling into the same trap that Fatah had walked into when it recognized the Israeli occupation.

In a press statement to the PIC, Dr. Bardawil stressed the need for reaching a package reconciliation agreement implemented simultaneously in Gaza and the West Bank, rejecting the attempts to impose Fatah point of view regarding the elections.

As for the reported news that Egypt would pressure Palestinian rivals to reach a reconciliation before the end of next month, the Hamas lawmaker said that this an Egyptian point of view, adding that Cairo expressed concern about the long period which the Palestinians were taking to reach an agreement.

With regard to the proposal of forming a joint security force only in Gaza, the lawmaker confirmed that this is utterly unacceptable, adding that the right way to deal with the security file is the re-building of the Palestinian security in both Gaza and the West Bank on professional and national foundations away from dealing with the Israeli occupation.

The lawmaker pointed out that any approval to the rebuilding of the security apparatuses only in Gaza means that the West Bank security apparatuses are given a certificate of good conduct and acquittal on their role against the Palestinian resistance and their security coordination with the Israeli occupation.

Bardawil deplored some Fatah leaders for accusing Hamas of practicing media instigation and violations in Gaza, saying that Hamas only exposes the facts and the violations committed by Fatah on the ground and does not use dirty language as some Fatah leaders deliberately use in media outlets.

The MP underlined that when his Movement talks about violations in the West Bank, it does not slander anyone, but it depends on statistics and names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in PA jails and has confirmed information about torture cases inside these jails.

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