ZAHHAR: A LAWSUIT WAS FILED AGAINST ABBAS FOR TELLING LIES ABOUT HAMAS

PIC
16/12/2009 – 11:36 AM

GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, a member of Hamas’s political
bureau, said Tuesday that his Movement filed a lawsuit against Mahmoud
Abbas for telling lies and rumors about Hamas, categorically denying
that his Movement suggested a presidential and legislative extension
for several years.

In a press statement to Al-Jazeera net, Dr. Zahhar noted that the
lawsuit was filed after Abbas fabricated lies about the escape of
Hamas leaders to Egypt during Israel’s war on Gaza.

He added that the charges were pressed with Gaza courts, but he ruled
out that the Palestinian prosecutor in the West Bank will summon
Abbas for questioning because of the current circumstances.

Abbas during his speech on Tuesday before the central committee of
the Palestine liberation organization (PLO) fabricated another lie
saying that Hamas had offered him a secret deal to extend his term of
office and the mandate of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC)
for three to four years.

For its part, the Movement of Hamas stated Tuesday that Abbas’s speech
was full of contradictions and lies, and misled the public opinion.

In a press release, Hamas added that Abbas miserably attempted to hold
it responsible for obstructing national reconciliation ignoring that
he and Fatah leaders are the parties responsible for not reaching
an agreement because of their insistence on the recognition of
the international quartet’s terms and their refusal to release all
political prisoners from their jails.

Hamas underscored that it rejects the extension of the presidential and
legislative terms of office as a substitute for elections, pointing
out that Abbas was the one who pursued the policy of extension when
he stayed in office for five years in violation of the Palestinian
basic law which sets a term limit to four years for the president of
the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Hamas called on Abbas to have the courage to declare the failure of
his negotiations, to stop his security coordination with the Israeli
occupation and to end the political arrest in the West Bank.