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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Haniyeh accuses US, Israel, Arabs of conspiracy

Ma'an
...talked about the internal and external conspiracies against the tenth government and the legislative council, elected in 2006, during the last four years.

"We were exposed to a three-dimensional war, economically by imposing the siege on the people of Gaza, militarily by attacking the people and committing crimes which are mostly represented in the war on Gaza, and politically as the occupation started to detain lawmakers and the representatives of the Palestinian people in order to undermine the Palestinian legitimacy and democracy," Haniyeh said.

..."we were exposed to a three-dimensional conspiracy which first was by trying to spread chaos, the second by objections and not committing to jobs, and the third was defamed and media incitement, dissemination of falsehoods and rumors, and creating facts that are not true.”  Full story