Yesterday this space included a quote from Hamas' leadership - a leadership that recognizes Israel only as a state to erase from the map.
Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip said "We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood," he told the Reuters news agency.
Today, the Palestinian Media Watch (http://palwatch.org/ reports that Fatah's leadership - a leadership with which Israel's current PM is courting as a peace partner - has added its voice against Bin Laden's alleged death.
The military wing of Fatah, of which Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is the chairman, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, published a long statement in reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden calling it a "catastrophe." They said that those who killed Bin Laden were "gangs of heretics." Fatah's military wing promises that the Jihad fighters will not be deterred in their path and ends its announcement vowing: "We say to the American and Israeli occupier: the [Islamic] nation which produced leaders who changed the course of history through their Jihad... is capable of restoring the glory of Islam and the flag of Allah's oneness, Allah willing."
The entire article can be read at http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4972
The PMW article included the following from a Arab source:
Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades announced via MAAN, an Arab media outlet, that "We say to the American and Israeli occupier: the [Islamic] nation which produced leaders who changed the course of history through their Jihad and their endurance, is a nation that is capable of supplying an abundance of new blood into the arteries of the resistance and is capable of restoring the glory of Islam."
