Armed groups vow Israel attacks

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Thirteen Palestinian factions issue threat amid relaunch of direct Middle East peace negotiations in Washington.

Hamas fighters have threatened to carry out a new wave of attacks against Israel after Palestinian and Israeli leaders relaunched direct peace negotiations in Washington.

Leaders for Hamas said 13 different armed groups, including themselves and Islamic Jihad, will join forces to launch "more effective attacks" against Israel.

The call on Thursday came after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister held their first direct talks in nearly two years at a US-sponsored summit in the US capital.

'Useless' talks

A spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, rejected the talks on Friday, describing them as "useless".

Abu Obaida made the statement at a brief news conference in Gaza City, where he was flanked by several other masked men in army fatigues.

"We reject completely the slipping again from the Ramallah Authority to the useless round of negotiations, which make a cover for the Zionist aggression against our people," Obaida said.

He also warned that "resistance" would follow.

"We will not allow these negotiations to pass over, and resistance will have its loud voice as an answer to the land-selling negotiation," he said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/09/201093924784217.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Anything to stop

peace from breaking out. All these guys would have to find real jobs.