The Hamas terror gang really hates it when President Bush hints that he might ask them to stop murdering Jews: Hamas accuses Bush of sowing Palestinian discord.

GAZA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas accused U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday of trying to bring war among Palestinians for urging President Mahmoud Abbas to confront and dismantle armed factions.

Bush made the call after a meeting with Abbas at the White House to try to advance a long-stalled “road map” for peace with Israel following last month’s Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Bush was making a “new American attempt to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority in order to create internal Palestinian strife and weaken the factions of resistance.”

The spokesman said Hamas, branded a terrorist group by Washington, rejected Bush’s decision to send a new security envoy with a mandate to help the Palestinian Authority “end terror attacks and dismantle terror infrastructures.”

Abu Zuhri said that represented “a flagrant American intervention in Palestinian affairs and reaffirms American hostility to our people.”

And don’t forget, at present Hamas is supposedly observing a ceasefire.