Rajub, a brother of former PA strongman Jibril Rajub, said Hamas was succeeding in finding "alternative financial aid" from Arab and Muslim sources. "If we succeed in reforming our financial and administrative policies, we will be able to save a lot of money, and that would help us achieve a semblance of independence from American blackmail."
Rajub said
NYT report
The New York Times on Tuesday reported that the US and Israel were discussing ways to isolate and destabilise Hamas if it failed to recognise Israel's right to exist, renounce armed resistance and accept previous Palestinian-Israeli agreements.
According to the paper, the goal of the campaign would be to ensure the newly-elected Hamas officials fail and new elections to be called by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President.
However, a senior PA foreign ministry official told Aljazeera.net that "all Palestinians, not just Hamas, reject efforts to undercut and corrode Palestinian democracy".
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Hamas has said it will not give |
He pointed out that Hamas was moving steadily towards "the Palestinian national consensus", adding that the gap between Fatah and Hamas was narrowing.
"I have to remind everybody that, not only Hamas, but Fatah as well insists on total Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied in 1967."
Hamas has repeatedly said it would not give
Moderate view
Some of Hamas's more moderate leaders, such as Ismail Haniya and Aziz Duwaik, have argued that
Aziz Duwaik in an interview with Aljazeera.net last week said: "Which
On its part,
Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry said: "The
"If they think they will be able to deceive us the same way they have been deceiving the PA, they are mistaken"
He refused to confirm or deny the New York Times report, but said
Nayif Rajub,
Spokesman for Hamas's lawmakers
"I think the upcoming period will be very difficult for everybody, it is going to be problematic. We simply can't accept Hamas as it is today."
Regev described as "rubbish" Hamas's argument that it is unfair and illogical to ask the movement to recognise
"
Nayif Rajub ridiculed Regev's remarks, calling them "evasive and deceptive".
"If they think they will be able to deceive us the same way they have been deceiving the PA, they are mistaken. We will not give
"The claim that
Source: Al Jazeera
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