Hamas: Implementing Oslo accord provisions is Treasonous

Supposedly the Hamas agreed to "respect" (or "honor") previous agreements, but the reality is different. Security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians is mandated by the Oslo accords, but when Nemr Hammad, political advisor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas called for resumption of security cooperation, Hamas called it treason.

How can Secretary of State Rice, or anyone, expect Israel to negotiate "final status" agreements with this government or with Mr Abbas, when the leading party in that government insists that honoring the provisions of the agreements is treason?

 

Ami Isseroff

Hamas: Hammad's calls tantamount to national treason

[ 26/03/2007 - 08:35 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas Movement has criticized Nemr Hammad, the political advisor of the PA chief, over his "unwarranted" calls to resume security coordination between Palestinians and Israeli security apparatuses, and regarded those calls as "permitting the IOF troops to kill more Palestinians".

The Movement, furthermore, charged that Hammad's statements meant to spoil the cordial relationship between PA president and the PA government, to divide the PA security apparatuses, and to plant distrust among them among other goals.

"Those statements are tantamount to national treason that aims at portraying PA security elements as traitors working for Israel against their own people", a statement issued by Hamas and a copy of which obtained by the PIC affirmed.

In addition, Hamas urged the immediate prosecution of Hammad over his "erred" statements, and called on PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to officially react to those statements and to specify his stand towards them.
Nixing Hammad's calls, Hamas stressed on the Palestinian people's right to resist the Israeli occupation government that usurped their lands and displaced millions of Palestinians out of their homes at gunpoint.
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Moreover, the Movement called on the PA unity government to swiftly open the file of Palestinian collaborators who backed the IOF troops against their own people, to prosecute them, and to carry out execution terms issued by local courts against a number of them.

In an interview with the Hebrew radio on Sunday, Hammad urged the immediate resumption of security coordination between PA and Israel's security apparatuses, spurring waves of condemnation in the Palestinian street.