Abbas to meet Olmert despite IOF massacres in Gaza

29 September 2009

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- While his people in the Gaza Strip are licking their wounds after a series of lethal Israeli airstrikes that claimed the lives of 34 Palestinians including nine children, PA chief Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet with Israeli premier Ehud Olmert next week in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Prior to his departure from the Japanese capital Tokyo, Olmert confirmed to journalists that he was heading back to occupied Palestine to meet with Abbas next week.

Olmert was replying to media questions if the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza Strip would jeopardize the PA-Israeli "peace" negotiations, stressing that the open war against the Palestinian people will continue.

Hamas Movement accused Abbas of paving the way for the new round of the Israeli escalation over the past 48 hours after he blamed the Palestinian resistance home-made missiles fired from Gaza in response to Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people for the brutal IOF aggressions in the Gaza Strip.

He (Abbas) also alleged that the Qaeda group was present in the tiny Strip with the aim to instigate the world against his own people. Hamas categorically denied Abbas's allegations.

Palestinian and Arab parties condemned the "unwarranted" statements of Abbas, affirming that they pour in Israel's favor against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip was clear when he charged that the new IOF escalation wasn’t normal but rather it was part of an Israeli plan supported by the USA and regional parties in the region with the aim to topple Hamas Movement and to finish off its political program that adheres to the Palestinian national constants without compromising any of them.

"The revelation of an Israeli plan to unleash full-scale military offensive on Gaza by a number of Israeli media outlets leaves no doubt that the Israeli military escalation against Gaza doesn’t relate to the issue of the home-made missiles but rather it is politically motivated", said Abu Zuhri in an interview with the PIC Thursday night.

But he stressed that the Israeli plan will fail "as previous conspiracies against Hamas had also failed".

"We want to remind [the Israeli occupation government] that wagering on possible Hamas collapse in Gaza Strip will be a very big mistake as that will fail as previous attempts were failed", Abu Zuhri underlined.

"Hamas isn't a group of individuals that can be finished off once those individuals are killed. Hamas is the Palestinian people, and whoever wants to finish Hamas off must finish off the entire Palestinian people", Abu Zuhri highlighted.

"Hamas will confront the conspiracy with all the strength it has and with all resoluteness", he asserted.

Israeli military analyst Ronnie Daniel had disclosed a couple of days ago that the IOF aggressions on Gaza Strip aim at weakening Hamas till it collapses, and to completely separate the West Bank from Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile an Israeli former official unveiled that the Israeli plan intends to overthrow Hamas's rule in Gaza Strip and to bring back the Strip under Abbas's rule.