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Sudan criticised both U.S. vice-presidential contenders on Sunday for suggesting they might support a no-fly zone over Darfur, saying the plan showed they knew little about the conflict.

Many activists have called for the U.N. to police a no-fly zone over the region to stop attacks.

Sarah Palin, the Republican governor of Alaska, said she supported a flight ban in Sudan's remote west during a televised debate with her Democratic rival Joe Biden on Thursday.

Biden, the Democratic senator from Delaware, did not explicitly call for a ban but said: "I don't have the stomach for genocide when it comes to Darfur. We can now impose a no-fly zone. It is within our capacity. We can lead NATO if we are willing to take a hard stand."

But Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman Ali al-Sadig on Sunday dismissed the statements of both candidates saying a no-fly zone would be impractical and useless.

"They know very little about what is going on here," he said. "Their statements were meant for local consumption. They had nothing to do with Darfur."

Sadig said an air ban would be ineffective because the Sudanese armed forces were not using aircraft in their ongoing struggle against rebel groups in Darfur.

He said government planes and helicopters were only being used to fight bandits and protect humanitarian convoys.

"It would be a very short-sighted move. Curbing the actions of the armed forces would impede the flow of humanitarian aid to Darfur and tie the hands of the government in its efforts to prevent attacks on aid convoys," he added.

Earlier his year, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would like to move ahead with a no-fly zone for Darfur "if it were at all possible".

But British foreign ministry officials later said they were not pursuing a ban because it would restrict humanitarian work. Darfur's size and a shortage of planes to monitor the ban would also make it "a major logistical challenge", they added. The remote western region is roughly the same size as Spain.


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Friday, 16 May 2008

Hamas to Bush: Hamas will not be defeated and occupation will not last long
 
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said on Thursday that Hamas will not be defeated as all attempts to break or weaken the movement have failed.

These comments were made in a press release in response to US president George Bush's speech on Thursday at the Knesset. Hamas added that the Israeli occupation will certainly not last another 60 years as Bush predicted.

Hamas also said in the statement that Bush tried to beautify the image of the Israeli occupation by describing it as one of the best democracies in the world ignoring all the atrocities committed by the occupation against the Palestinian people.

The Movement also regarded Bush and the US administration as "essential partners in the Israeli occupation crimes against the Palestinian people, and not the honest peace brokers they try to portray themselves as."

Hamas considered as very serious "Bush's recognition of Palestine as a national homeland for the Jews" considering such a statement as "Racist, serious and means the denial of the right of return [of Palestinian refugees]," adding that this only means a racist entity at the expense of Palestinian rights and that the shallow reference to a Palestinian state in Bush's speech means he has already reneged on promises he made to Abbas about establishing a Palestinian state by the end of 2008.

The movement also said that during his first term in office, Bush promised to establish the Palestinian state before the end of 2005; yet, he changed his mind and promised again to create it before the end of this year, which many Israeli and Palestinian officials asserted it wasn’t feasible.

Bush told the Israelis in his speech that the US supports them in destroying terror networks wherever they are and predicted that a strong and prosperous Israel will celebrate its 120th anniversary, and the Palestinians would [then] have their independent state that rejects terrorism, and both Hizbullah and Hamas would be [by then] wiped out.
 

** Source: palestine-info centre
Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 July 2008 )
 
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