Hamas Slams Bush Me Tours

The Hamas Movement said that the statements by US president George Bush in his news conference at Israeli premier Ehud Olmert's residence on Wednesday evening represent an attempt to deceive and mislead public opinion through making hollow promises about the establishment of a Palestinian state.

In an exclusive statement to the PIC, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, underlined that President Bush urged the PA and Zionist regime to unite their efforts to fight the legitimate Palestinian resistance which he branded as terrorism, expecting that the coming days would be witnessing further Israeli escalation and crimes against the Palestinian people as a natural product of Bush's incitement against the resistance.

Dr. Abu Zuhri pointed out that Zionist regime premier tried to show the Zionists as victims through dwelling on the Palestinian resistance's rockets, "while the problem does not lie in our people but in Israel and its ongoing atrocities in the West Bank and Gaza", highlighting the Palestinian people and resistance's right to self-defense against the Israeli crimes.

The spokesman also pointed out that the US president threatened that there would be no Palestinian state if the PA leadership was not committed to fighting the Palestinian resistance resolutely, and alleged that peace could not be attained unless the resistance was eliminated.

Hamas spokesman said that the racist statements made by Bush shortly after his arrival to the region in which he said that "the US-Israeli alliance helps to guarantee the security of Israel as a Jewish State", means that US supports the establishment of a racist regime in the region at the expense of the Palestinian people's rights.

In the context of Bush's unwelcome visit to occupied Palestine, Palestinian security sources told that the American security apparatuses, who arrived earlier in Ramallah several days ago to secure and protect the US president during his visit to the region sent all members of the PA security apparatuses home including the private security staff of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas except for a limited number of them, and replaced them with American and Israeli elements.

The sources confirmed that a state of discontent prevailed amongst the demobilized PA security elements including senior presidential guards for their temporary dismissal at the pretext of security precautions against any intention to assassinate the visiting US president.

The sources also revealed that the US security wrote off the names of many PA officials nominated by Abbas to participate in his meeting with the US President except a limited number of officials who have close ties with the American administration.

The sources added that Israeli and American security men stormed and ransacked hundreds of Palestinian houses surrounding the PA headquarters in Ramallah and expelled dozens of Palestinian families from their houses, while many of Israeli and American snipers were deployed on the rooftops of the evacuated buildings there amid other strict security measures.