DAMASCUS, Nov 6 (KUNA) -- The Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas will seek to ensure success of the upcoming national Palestinian conciliation talks, the head of the group politburo said.
Speaking at a ceremony held, late on Friday, marking anniversary of the group founding, Khaled Meshaal said Hamas would seek, during a prospected meeting with the other mainstream Palestinian movement, Fatah, due in Damascus, to ensure success of the reconciliation talks and thrash out pending issues of dissension to pave way for tackling the rifts between the two sides.
Elaborating, Meshaal called for seizing the moment to accomplish the national Palestinian conciliation, on the basis of the 2006 national charter, restoring the resistance option and adhering to the rights of the Palestinian people.
"The resistance is the right option that has been adopted by the Palestinian people for it has become clear that the choice of negotiations with the Israeli occupation will be fruitless," he said. "The movement does not reject diplomacy but politics can be valueless unless backed by the resistance as a paper of power," Meshaal added.
Meshaal said the Palestinians should not depend on the Israelis or the Americans to attain their rights.
Identical rhetoric was uttered by Ramdan Shalah, the chief of Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian faction that adopts a political doctrine similar to that of Hamas. (end) tk.rk KUNA 061121 Nov 10NNNN