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    HAMAS LEADER: US EFFORTS TO RESTORE PEACE TALKS SERVE ISRAEL'S INTERESTS

    http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920509000840
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:52

    TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior leader of Hamas movement deplored the US
    attempts to revive 'peace talks' between Israel and the Palestinians,
    warning that Washington is trying to provide the Zionist regime's
    interests.

    "The US efforts to restore the negotiations are meant to render
    service to the Zionist enemy and meet the Zionists' interests,"
    Khalil Abu Laila told FNA on Wednesday.

    He downplayed the effectiveness of the so-called peace talks in
    restoring the rights of the Palestinian nation, and said, "Israel
    merely understands the language of force and we may not put aside
    the weapon of resistance and we will use it against the Israeli enemy."

    Earlier this month, US Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that he
    finally "convinced Israeli and Palestinian officials to return to the
    negotiating table." This is while the prospects for peace appear just
    as unlikely as before.

    Head of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Hamas movement Khalid
    Mashaal had underlined in May that Washington's efforts to restore
    peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are doomed to fail
    since the US secretary of state has not presented any solution to
    the ongoing crisis.

    "The US secretary of state has not presented any solution to settle
    the conflicts between the Palestinians and the Zionist regime and
    therefore the country's efforts are doomed to fail similar to the
    past," Mashaal said.

    He complained that John Kerry has not adopted a serious approach to
    settle the Palestinian issue fairly because it has never pressured
    Israel as the occupier, and has just pressured the Arab sides and
    the Palestinian authority and presented some useless projects.

    The US secretary of state has claimed to be seeking to revive direct
    peace talks that broke down in 2010 over the issue of Jewish settlement
    building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

    He hailed the Arab League's revised Middle-East peace initiative as
    "a very big step forward".

    But Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh at the time rejected the
    plan, saying outsiders could not decide the fate of the Palestinians.

    In the meetings held in early May in Washington, Arab states appeared
    to soften their 2002 peace plan, acknowledging that Israelis and
    Palestinians may have to swap land in any eventual peace deal.

    Addressing hundreds of worshippers in a Gaza mosque, Haniyeh said it
    was a concession that other Arabs were not authorized to make.

    "The so-called new Arab initiative is rejected by our people, by our
    nation and no one can accept it," Haniyeh said.

    "The initiative contains numerous dangers to our people in the occupied
    land of 1967, 1948 and to our people in exile."

    "To those who speak of land swaps we say: Palestine is not a property,
    it is not for sale, not for a swap and cannot be traded," Haniyeh said.

    Haniyeh said the Palestinian Authority, headed by Palestinian President
    Mahmoud Abbas, was to blame for inspiring the softer Arab position
    because it accepted the need for land swaps with Israel.

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