Hamas Politburo Chief Welcomes Talks with Fatah

Source: Al-Manar TV, 3-11-2007
Hamas politburo Chief Khaled Meshaal said on Saturday that he welcomed talks with the movement`s Fatah rivals, according to a statement posted on a Hamas website.
"We open our doors to a national dialogue and a solution to internal conflicts because we believe in the importance and the necessity and the need of the Palestinian people for this, but we will not beg," Meshaal said.
Meshaal, who heads the Islamic resistance movement`s powerful political office in Syria, went on to warn Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas against attending an international conference expected in the United States later this year.
Hamas has repeatedly said that the meeting - aimed at reviving negotiations with "Israel" which have been dormant since 2000 - is a US and "Israel" ploy to normalize relations with Arab states.
"(US President George W.) Bush is not trustworthy, and he wants to save himself from his failure in Iraq... There is no political horizon, the only real horizon is in unity between Hamas and Fatah," Meshaal said.
The organizers of the conference "want nothing but normalization with the Arabs, and they will do nothing but increase Arab and internal divisions to prepare for new assaults against Iran and Syria, and Lebanon and Gaza."
His comments came a day after Abbas met Hamas members in the West Bank for the first time since the Hamas took control in Gaza.
"Israel" has warned that any kind of rapprochement with Hamas could endanger current talks between "Israel" and Palestinian Authority, and Washington is likely to take a similar position, having blacklisted Hamas as a terror group.