Hamas says still seeks Israel's destruction

[oberliner]

GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas rejected on Monday criticism by al Qaeda's second-in-command and said it was still committed to Israel's destruction despite a power-sharing deal with the Fatah faction.

"We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine," Hamas said in a statement, in a clear reference to Israel as well as to the occupied West Bank.

In an audio recording posted on the Internet on Sunday, al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahri accused Hamas of serving U.S. interests by agreeing to respect past Palestinian peace accords with Israel in a recent Saudi-brokered unity government deal with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah.

The coalition agreement fell short of meeting demands by the Quartet of peace mediators -- the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia -- to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing interim peace deals.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/wl_nm/palestinians_qaeda_dc_1

[UnyieldingHierophant]

1. Germans bomb Pearl Harbor!*

[rockymountaindem]

2. I guess nobody cares about this

except us.

[Hunky Dunky]

3. I care

And I think most here do. But, when there is a story whose main point is that Hamas wants to kill all the Jewish people in Israel, it is already such an established and known indication of the sick reality of Hamas' intention, that, basically, everyone (I think) agrees that Hamas is an evil organization that must be dismantled.