Hamas: "Israeli"-Palestinian talks are doomed to fail

Source: Xinhua, 14-01-2008
GAZA - "Israeli" and Palestinian chief negotiators are scheduled to meet on Monday to start talks on permanent status issues, where Hamas movement in Gaza said these talks are "doomed to fail."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced earlier Sunday night that Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Quriea and "Israeli" Foreign Minister Tzipi Levni would meet in 'Jerusalem' (al-Quds) to start talks on permanent status issues.
Abbas named the permanent status issues as: Jerusalem, borders, Jewish (Zionist) settlements, Palestinian refugees, water and security, adding "all issues have to be discussed and negotiated together at the same time."
Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas movement's spokesman in Gaza said in a statement that "the meeting (between Quriea and Levni) is doomed to fail amid the ongoing Zionist crimes against our people, and the stubborn Zionist policy."
Hamas movement, which rejects to recognize the state of "Israel" or the signed agreements, had ousted President Abbas security forces and took control of the entire Gaza Strip in mid June.
"Hamas movement considers such a meeting and all other similar meetings multiply a coverage for the 'Israeli' occupation to carry on with its crimes committed against our people," said Abu Zuhri.
He called on Quriea and Abbas "to immediately stop trading without people's rights and blood and stop such useless meetings with the enemy."