Hamas officials contradict selves in media

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JERUSALEM - Since officially forming its government earlier this month, Hamas has been making a series of contradictory statements to the media, supporting terrorism and promoting the destruction of Israel in Arabic-language interviews while espousing moderate ideology and the possibility of coexistence when speaking to Western audiences, according to a recent study.
"The Hamas movement, in an attempt to bridge the significant gap between its platform and ideology - denying Israel 's existence and supporting terrorism - and the demands of the international community, [has been] pursuing a media strategy of deliberate ambiguity and double-talk," concluded the study by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center and Israel's Center for Special Studies.
"By means of Western media, senior Hamas officials attempt to blur or hide their basic extremist positions and to project a 'softened' front. By means of Arab media in general and Palestinian media in particular, Hamas projects a militant, uncompromising image," the study stated.
The study follows a WND exclusive interview in which a top Hamas leader said his group will soon make public in English a "peace initiative" in which it will offer to trade strategic land with Israel, cease attempts to capture parts of Jerusalem and sign a 10-year renewable truce with the Jewish state. The leader conceded the aim of the proposal was to later destroy Israel.
The Center for Special Studies cited multiple cases in which Hamas officials, often including its prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, directly contradicted themselves in statements to different media outlets, depending on the audience.
On the topic of suicide bombings, Haniyeh recently granted an English interview to CBS in which he stated, "Hamas never thought about violence, but, in effect, aspired towards peace and calm based upon justice and equality."
In an interview with Britain's Observer, Hamas Legislative Council member Yahya Moussa claimed Hamas entered a new age where suicide bombings were no longer part of its belief system.
"The suicide bombings happened in an exceptional period and they have now stopped. ... They came to an end as a change of belief," Moussa stated.
But speaking to an Arabic audience during a meeting of the Hamas legislative council, Haniyeh stated, "The movement's [political] platform integrates between resistance and political activity. ... The fundamental stances [of the government] emerged out of the womb of resistance."
Overall Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told the Arabic media in an announcement, "Resistance is the option the Palestinian people adheres to for restoring its national rights."
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Voice of Palestine, a West Bank radio station, "The [Hamas] movement adheres to all forms of resistance ... including suicide bombing attack."
Regarding the possibility of recognizing Israel, Haniyeh said in an English language interview with the Jerusalem Post Hamas would respect the agreements ensuring the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners. He added that if Israel withdrew to the 1967 lines, Hamas would formulate peace in stages.
Hamas chief in Gaza Mahmoud al-Zahar made similar statements in several interviews with WorldNetDaily.
But speaking in Arabic, Haniyeh told the Al-Shuruq newspaper, "One of the fundamental principles of the new government is not to surrender to international pressure and refuse to recognize Israel."
Meshaal told Al-Rai al-Am, a Kuwaiti daily, "No to negotiations with Israel. No to recognition of Israel. And no to surrendering Palestinians' rights."
Discussing direct negotiations with Israel, al-Zahar said during a well-circulated interview with WorldNetDaily and ABC Radio he is willing to talk with Israel through third-party mediators if the Jewish state had a peace proposal.
Haniyeh told the Jerusalem Post agreements previously signed by the Palestinian Authority would be considered and discussed by Hamas, and that his group was seeking a mechanism for conducting negotiations with Israel.
Later Omar Abd el-Razeq, Hamas' Minister of Finance, told Reuters he is willing to meet with his Israeli counterpart.
But Wasfi Qabha, Hamas' Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, told the Arabaic media, "I will not meet with the occupation leadership."
Sa'id Siyam, a Hamas Interior Minister, said at an Arabic press conference in Gaza City, "The Palestinian defense is not open for political negotiations. That is out of the question on my agenda."
The conflicted statements to the media follow a WND exclusive interview in January in which a top Hamas leader outlined a "peace initiative" he said Hamas would soon float publicly. The leader justified the proposal using Islamic tradition and stated it would be a temporary machination to ease international and U.S. hostility toward his group in hopes of receiving financial assistance.
"We will be ready for a long interim agreement based on a period of cease-fire that can go to 10 or even 15 years like it was done by the prophet Muhammad with the enemies of the Muslims," said the senior Hamas official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld, since he said he was "revealing confidential operative information."
Hamas leaders, including overall leader Meshal, formulated a "peace proposal" they agreed would be acceptable to their group in which the Palestinians would offer to trade certain lands with Israel, the top Hamas official revealed.
"With the territories we will be ready to discuss the possibility that the three big settlement compounds will remain under the power of the occupation (Israel), and in exchange we will receive territories for the Palestinian independent state," said the Hamas leader.
The leader told WND the "three settlements" he was referring to are Ariel and Gush Etzion, two large regions in the West Bank that contain many of the area's major Jewish communities, and western and peripheral sections of Jerusalem, which he said Hamas considers "Israeli settlements." Jews have resided in Jerusalem - which is mentioned more than 800 times in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible - for more than 3,000 years.
Hamas, in exchange for the three areas, would want the eastern sections of Jerusalem, the parts of the southern Israeli Negev desert that border the Gaza Strip and the Jordan Valley, which extends from outside Jerusalem toward Jordan and encompasses most of Israel's major water supplies.
The Hamas official indicated his group may be willing to compromise on its territorial demands.
"We are most interested in Jerusalem and the Negev," the leader said.
The leader then justified the Hamas "peace plan" using Islamic history.
"The Muslim hero Saladin gave up land when he gave Acco to the Crusaders in order to keep Jerusalem," he said. "Therefore, I say that the possibility of the exchange of territories existed already in the history of Islam and it cohabitates with our principle that all of Palestine is a dedicated land from Allah, may he be blessed to the Muslims, and no one has the right to give up any part of it."
There have been concerns as its power grows, Hamas may try to impose hard-line Islamic law on the Palestinians. Immediately following its election victory last month, Hamas gunmen placed the group's flag on the Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah and reportedly announced Hamas will soon rule the area by Sharia law. Hamas reportedly has banned Western music events and established hard-line Islamic courts. Israel says the group has an "Anti-Corruption Unit" that enforces Islamic rules.
But the Hamas official told WND his terror organization will not impose Islamic law, "in order to reduce the hostility of the international community and the government of Israel [toward Hamas]. We will not take any initiative to change the way of life of the Palestinian people."
The Hamas leader said, "I tell you we will surprise everyone with our new attitude."
But he said his group will not abandon its goal of destroying Israel.
"When I speak about a long cease-fire and a temporary agreement, it means that we do not recognize the right of the state of the occupation on our lands, but we will accept its existence temporarily," said the leader.
The leader insisted the policies are based on the formulation Hamas will not be able to defeat Israel in the near future, but he said his group is confident it ultimately will be "victorious."
"I do not see the Palestinian people and Islamic nation succeeding to liberate this blessed land of Palestine in the very near future," he said. "This is an Islamic land and the Jews are invited to live in Palestine and the Muslims will guaranty their safety and honor. ... But we will never give up our right for the whole of Palestine. We should be realistic to admit that the mission for the liberation of Palestine will pass on to the coming generations."