Hamas is ready for national dialogue

Hamas is ready for national dialogue// Autumn peace meeting to fail

Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Mashaal said on Saturday that he welcomed talks with  Fatah  but would not "beg", according to a statement posted on a Hamas website.

"We open our doors to a national dialogue and a solution to internal conflicts because we believe in the importance and the necessity and the need of the Palestinian people for this" Meshaal said.

Meshaal also went on to warn Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas against attending an international peace meeting expected in the United States later this year.

Hamas has repeatedly said that the meeting -- aimed at reviving peace negotiations with Zionist regime which have been dormant since 2000 -- is a US and Zionist ploy to normalise relations with Arab states.

"(US President George W.) Bush is not trustworthy, and he wants to save himself from his failure in Iraq... There is no political horizon, the only real horizon is in unity between Hamas and Fatah," Meshaal said.

The organisers of the conference "want nothing but normalisation with the Arabs, and they will do nothing but increase Arab and internal divisions to prepare for new assaults against Iran and Syria, and Lebanon and Gaza.