Hamas
Candidate Says United Jerusalem to be Arab
Capital
14:53 Jan 08, '06 / 8 Tevet 5766
By Scott Shiloh
The man who heads the Hamas election list in the upcoming PA
parliamentary election said that a united Jerusalem, or the
entire capital of Israel, must be the capital of a Palestinian
state.
The Hamas candidate, Ismail Hania, also said that if elected, the
terror group would stick to its policy of jihad, or holy war
against the Jewish state. Recent polls show the Hamas receiving 30%
or more of the popular vote in the election scheduled for later
this month.
At an election rally in Khan Yunis in the Gaza district, Hania said
there would be no negotiations with Israel, just the barrel of the
gun, the only language Israel understands.
Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofazs recent comments to the effect that
Israel would open a dialogue with the Hamas under certain
conditions was interpreted by Hania as an expression of
weakness.
Hania said Mofazs position exemplifies that the Zionist
enterprise is beginning to collapse. The next phase is the
disintegration and withdrawal of the occupation, and the rise of
eternal Islam and the eternal Islamic nation.
At the rally, Hania tried to distinguish his party from the other
terrorist groups running for office in the PA. He said the Hamas
would never make any concessions to Israel.
He outlined his groups order of priorities as Islam, and the
defense of "Palestinian interests" which he identified as land,
Jerusalem, the return of refugees, release of prisoners held by
Israel (including the assassins of Israels Tourist Minister
Rehavam Zeevi), and the right to continue the jihad against Israel
and to make it the policy of the PA parliament.
Regarding Jerusalem, Hania said that the terror groups policy of
making the entire city of Jerusalem the PA capital found expression
in the location of the groups suicide attacks. Those attacks
deliberately targeted the Jewish neighborhoods of the city in order
to emphasize the PA territorial claim to the entire Jewish
capital.