Hamas will keep on killing.

GAZA CITY (AFP) - The radical Islamist group Hamas rejected calls from Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas for the movement to renounce violence and hold dialogue with the ruling Fatah party.

“We think that the past experience of our people with the Israeli occupation confirms that resistance is the main language that this occupation understands,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP in Gaza City.

“Peace agreements will only bring further losses and push back our cause,” he added Monday, pointing out that Abbas’s Fatah party also maintains its own armed wing, the loosely affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Get Ready for the Hamas State.

The Gaza Strip is becoming the Hamas state, no doubt about it. Former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) director Avi Dichter publicly warned again this week that the Hamas is setting up in Gaza “an army of thousands of armed men based on the model of the Hizbullah in Lebanon.”

There is, however, a difference between the two organizations. Hizbullah is only one of several armed organizations inside Lebanon, and the country has a government and an army that don’t dare to dismantle them. In Gaza, Hamas continues to hold on to weapons and manpower to take control of the nascent Palestinian state.

Some politicians and naive experts in Jerusalem and Washington are consoling themselves with the thought that by participating in the elections Hamas will turn into a political body, just as Hizbullah is also a political party in Lebanon.

But such things don’t exist in a democratic regime. Do political parties in Israel, the US or France possess private armies? Of course not. Hizbullah and Hamas have tremendous arsenals of weapons with which they can enforce a reign of terror. President George W. Bush obviously knows this while waging his historic campaign to democratize corrupt Arab regimes, including those in Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

The intelligence agencies of the US and Israel are aware of the fact stated by Dichter and the outgoing IDF chief of staff, Moshe Ya’alon, that large quantities of weapons are being constantly smuggled to the Gaza Strip. In 2004 alone about 10,000 automatic rifles and a 1,000 RPG anti-tank weapons were smuggled in.

The dimensions of the smuggling have now reached a new peak since the IDF is hesitant to carry out military operations in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians are digging additional tunnels both for smuggling weapons and for perpetrating terrorist attacks against IDF bases and the settlements that are about to be uprooted.

Abu Mazen: Without Progress, We Will Return to Armed Resistance.

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) threatened Sunday, in an English language interview program, to renew terrorism if the PLO’s demands are not met.

Abu Mazen’s interview on ABC’s This Week program focused on his call for the Hamas terror group to renounce violence, going so far as to say the era of suicide bombings is “over”. The PLO chairman’s language, however, highlighted the fact that he sees such a move as desirable on a tactical level at the present time and not reflective of a rejection of terrorism as a negotiating tool.

“The climate right now is ready for political negotiations,” Abu Mazen said through an interpreter. “Hamas should reach that conclusion, that now the way is the political way and not any other way.”

The official PA website, wrote, “[Abu Mazen] warned that if progress toward a peace agreement was not achieved in meetings with Sharon next month, ‘despair and loss of hope will come back and a return to the old ideas’ of armed resistance.”