The daily column by Dr. Faiz Abu Smala, among the senior journalists in the Official Journal of Hamas Falastin, openly undermines last week's claim by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations General Assembly that "the Palestine Liberation Organization [is] the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people wherever they are."
Smala wrote that Hamas consistently demands to enact reform in the PLO that would allow the organization to integrate Islamic organizations and to immediately establish new PLO leadership together with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.