Text of Hamas Legislative Elections Program

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) declared officially on Saturday its electoral program. Of its list “Change and Reform” through which Hamas will stand for elections on 25th of January 2006 . The text of the program is as follows:


Introduction
1- Our Principles
2- Domestic Policy
3- Foreign Relations
4- Administrative Reform And Combating Corruption
5- Legislative Policy And Judicial Reform
6- Public Freedom And Citizen Rights
7- Educational And Pedagogical Policy
8- Preaching And Guidance
9- Social Policy
10- Cultural And Media Policy
11- Woman, Child And Family Issues
12- Youth Issues
13- Housing Policy
14- Health and Environment Policy
15- Agricultural Policy
16- Economic, Financial And Monetary Policy
17- Labour And Workers Issues
18- Transportation And Crossings



Epilogue
Introduction:
Due to our conviction that we are defending one of the greatest bays of Islam; due to our responsibility towards our struggling people and their holy and just cause; due to our duty to contribute in reforming the Palestinian reality, to alleviate the suffering of our brave people, consolidate their resistance and protect them against corruption; and due to our hope to consolidate our national unity and to reinforce the domestic Palestinian front: we decided to participate in the Palestinian legislative elections 2006.


The list of “Change and Reform” believes that its participation in the legislative elections now and under the reality of the Palestinian cause, comes within the comprehensive program of liberating Palestine, repatriating the Palestinian people and establishing their independent state whose capital is Jerusalem. Such participation meant to be backing up and support the Intifada and resistance program assented by the Palestinian people as a strategic option to end the occupation.


The Change and Reform list works on establishing a civil developed Palestinian society based on political multiplicity, authority alternation and directing the Palestinian political system as well as its political and reform program to accomplish the national rights of the Palestinian people, taking into consideration the existence of the oppressive occupation and its odious burden placed on our land and people, as well as its flagrant intervention even in the details of the Palestinian life.


Our list brings forward its program as a kind of fidelity to our patient people who believe that such approach is the most effective alternative; and consider Hamas movement as being the promising hope for better future, God willing; they also deem such list as the sincere leadership for better future, God willing.
Allah Says in the holy Qur’an “and this (i.e. Allah’s commandments mentioned in the above 2 verses 151 & 152) is My straight path, so follow it, and follow not (other) paths, for they will separate you away from this path. This He has ordaining for you that you may become Almuttaqin (pious)”
“Al Anaam Surah 153”. (1)


First: Principles:
Our list adopts a number of principles arising from Islamic reference that we approve and consider as point of consensus not only on the national Palestinian domain but also on the Arab and Islamic one. Such principles are as follows:



1- The true religion of Islam and its civilization achievements are our reference and a way of life in all its aspects: politically, economically, socially and legally.
2- Historical Palestine is a part of the Arab and Islamic land; It is a right for the Palestinian people that does not made ineffective by prescription. Any other military or allegedly legal procedures can not change such a fact.
3- The Palestinian people are one unit, wherever they exist; they are part and parcel of the Arab and Islamic nation. Allah Says in the holy Qur’an “Truly! This, your Ummah (Shariah or religion” “Islam monotheism” is one religion and I an your Lord therefore worship Me Alone “
4- Our Palestinian people are still living a stage of national liberation, they have the right to work for regaining their rights as well as ending the occupation by using all available means including armed resistance. We have to exploit all our energy to support the resistance of our people and to provide all abilities to end occupation and establishing the Palestinian state whose Jerusalem is its capital;
5- The right of all Palestinians who are expatriated and refugees to return to their home and properties; the right of self-determination and all our national rights are not negotiable; such rights are also fixed and they can not be diminished by any political concessions;
6- Full adherence to our people’s fixed and original rights in land, Jerusalem, holy places, water, borders and a Palestinian state of complete sovereignty with Jerusalem as a capital;
7- Support and protection of Palestinian national unity is one of the priorities of the Palestinian national work;
8- The prisoners and detainees issue is at the head of the priorities of the Palestinian work.


Second: Domestic policy:


On the domestic policy level that organizes the Palestinian political life with its different dimensions, we are aiming at achieving the following priorities which we consider as being a guarantee to a future that is suitable to the struggle and sacrifice of our people and capable of enhancing its resistance in an endeavor to achieve comprehensive liberation and desired reform:



1- Preserving the Palestinian national principles and resisting any attempt to give them up.
2- Preserving the Palestinian existence in Jerusalem; offering political, economical, social, and cultural support for that purpose; resisting enemy attempts towards Jerusalem Judaization and protecting Palestinian Islamic and Christian holy places from Zionist desecration.
3- Political freedoms, multiplicity, freedom to form parties, having a poll voting decide and peaceful alternation of authority are considered the main frame that organizes the Palestinian political work; and a guarantee of reform as well as fighting corruption and establishing a developed civil Palestinian community;
4- Deepening bonds of national unity, approving dialogue, having a mind decide in solving domestic disputes and prohibiting neither fighting each other nor using any kind of force nor threatening to use it within the internal frame;
5- Working on strengthening respect of public freedoms (freedom of speech, media, mass meeting, transportation and work …etc.) as being part of life of the Palestinian people.
6- Palestinian blood should be prohibited inside the Palestinian society; dialogue is the only accepted way to solve domestic Palestinian disputes.
7- Prohibition of political detention and refusal of opinion confiscation;
8- Protecting civil society’s institutions and activation of their role in development and censorship;
9- Rectifying and guiding the role played by security agencies in protecting citizens’ safety; stopping wrong and abusive practices; providing guarantee of citizens’ freedom; safeguarding public and private properties; and subjecting the practices of such agencies to the review and calling to account of the legislative council.
10- Considering the security cooperation or the so called “security coordination” with the occupation forces a major political and religious crime that deserves the utmost punishment.
11- Protecting resistance; activating its role in fighting occupation; and completing the mission of liberation.
12- Raising Palestinian man who is proud of his religion, land, freedom and dignity and who is ready to give all what is precious and valuable for these rights.
13- Activating the resistance against the racial buffer wall, and adopting all possible ways to remove it among which resorting to institutions or international courts;
14- Providing guarantee for minorities rights and showing respect to such rights at all national levels based on the base of full citizenship .
15- All kinds of public fund are rights for all Palestinians and it should be used in funding comprehensive Palestinian development in a way that fulfills social and geographical equity. Public fund should be kept away from misuse, waste, anger, corruption and pilferage;
16- Prisoners, injured and martyrs are symbols of Palestinian sacrifice. A topmost goal on our national agenda is to take care of such people and their families as well as releasing prisoners.
17- Increasing the performance of the institutions that support prisoners,and families of martyrs and injured. Treating prisoners and martyrs as civil employees, and paying them salaries that are equal to the civil ones.
18- Keeping both Muslim and Christian Palestinian entailments away from aggression and cheat as well as developing such entailments in a way that suits thier moral and materialistic values.
19- Working on fence-mending the relations between Palestinian Liberation Organization and the National Palestinian Authority in a way that serves national goals and respects fields of specialization.


Third: Foreign relations:
1- Strengthening relations with the Arab and Islamic world in all fields as being the strategic depth for Palestine as well as openness to other world countries.
2- Activation of the role played by Arab and Islamic masses to support the resistance of our people against occupation, and the refusal of normalization with our enemy.
3- Refusing of sectarian, regional and ethical calls that aim at dividing the Ummah.
4- Setting up balanced political relations with the international society that guarantee effective participation in the international community; and preserve the nation’s unity, its national sovereignty and its development. Protecting nation’s cause and rights – especially the Palestinian cause – repulsing any possible attacks.
5- Emphasizing at all international levels and in all international forums the illegitimacy of the occupation and its consequences;
6- Considering the occupation as being the most ugly form of terrorism and fighting the occupation by all rightful means dictated by laws of all religions or international laws.
7- Calling all peoples and charitable powers in the world to join into an alliance to establish a just universal peace that is based on getting rid of all kinds of occupation, and colonization aftermath; Banning foreign intervention in domestic affairs.
8- Rehabilitating Palestinian rights in international and Arab gatherings, especially the right of liberation, repatriation of refugees, establishing the Palestinian state with complete sovereignty and bringing about all stands and resolutions supporting it.
9- Calling the international community to participate effectively in rehabilitating cities and villages as well as providing infrastructure for them.
10- Refusing the conditioned donations that requires concession for the national principles; and working continuous to find honorable alternatives.


Fourth: Administrative reform and combating corruption
1- fighting corruption in all forms as well as considering it a main reason behind weakening the domestic Palestinian front and undermining foundations of national unity… Following up investigation in the financial and administrative corruption cases, and punishing corrupted people through judicial authorities.
2- Enhancing transparency, censorship and inquiries in dealing with public balance sheet in all its stages (i.e. planning, preparation, discussion, approval and execution).
3- Modernizing general legislations and administrative systems in a way that guarantees increasing the effectiveness of the executive bodies, so that they would be able to offer the public services in a high quality and facility at all levels. Achieving decentralization approach; working through authority authorization principles and participating in decision making;
4- Reformating public employment policy in a way that guarantees equal opportunities for Palestinians depending on competence. fighting nepotism, factions, party preference in appointments and promotions in all public institutions and state circles.
5- Forming a national parliamentary committee to monitor Palestinian Islamic and Christian entailment funds to guarantee proper usage of such entailments and to achieve their aspired goals;
6- fighting negligence in governmental performance and wasting public fund. Promoting the sense of responsibility to al employers … Prophet Mohamed (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “All of you are guardians and all of you are responsible for his subjects”;
7- Applying the policy of (where did you get this from?) on the employers of the public services.
8- Developing and activating the role played by censorship bodies (e.g. administrative and financial censorship office and the other censorship bodies);
9- Establishing (Complaints bureau) to receive complaints of the citizens.



Fifth: Legislative policy and judicial reform
1- Making the Islamic law as “the basic source of legislation” in Palestine.
2- Confirming separation of judicial, executing and legislative authorities.
3- Activation of the role of the Constitutional Court.
4- Stipulating the legislations that observe the confidentiality of the Palestinian people, their values and heritage.
5- Establishing a judicial institutions for training and rehabilitation;
6- Re-forming of the Supreme Judicial Council through elections among Palestinian judges. The elections should be based on competence and experience and should kept away from political and social preference as well as personal nepotism;
7- Passing laws that are aiming at activating the judicial inspection to review the judicial authorities at all levels.
8- Passing laws necessary for preventing politicizing the office of the attorney general and enacting experience, censorship, inquiry and calling to account.
9- Amending the law of fundamentals of civil and commercial courts as well as penalty procedures law in a way that insures shortening span of judicial proceedings and reducing number of circulated cases as well as determining the optimum span of time for legal proceedings and periods of postponement.
10- Enhancing democracy and consultation in all fields and sites as well as achieving efficient participation.
11- Putting limitations on the trespass of the executive authority over the Constitution, as it passes temporary laws, makes repeated amendments, delays execution of laws and any other overstepping.
12- Passing a new electoral law that achieve equity and guarantees secretion of a council that represents our people in the West Bank and Gaza Sector in an honest and real way.
13- fighting any legislations or agreements with the enemy that may damage the rights of our Palestinian people.


Sixth: Public freedoms and citizenship rights


1- Achieving the principle of equality before the law for all individuals so that they would gain equity in rights and duties.
2- Providing security for each citizen, protecting him/her and his/her properties, so that s/he is not exposed neither to despotic detention, revenge nor torture.
3- stopping intervention of the security bodies in the employment process, and aboliting of what is known as security safety.
4- Deepening the dialogue culture,and respecting all opinions in a way that does not contradict with people’s beliefs and civilizational heritage.
5- Providing guarantee to special groups (e.g. prisoners and their families, families of martyrs, woman, child, poor people and handicapped).
6- Paying attention to media institutions and guarantee the right of reporters to obtain and publish the information.
7- Protecting the freedoms of syndicates, preserving their independence, keeping them away of all kinds of domination, and allowing the establishment of new syndicates to protect workers rights in all fields.
8- Recognizing political powers, encouraging them and benefiting from their role as well as supporting all different institutions of the civil society.
9- Approving the principle of equal opportunities as well as placing the right man in the right place.


Seventh: Educational and pedagogical policy
Because up brining is the foundation on which the new generation will be able to determine the future of the nation, achieving the dream of freedom, liberation and independence; education should also go along with up-to-date systems: therefore our list will try to achieve the following:


1- Applying Principles on which the philosophy of pedagogy and education is based, first of which, is that Islam is a comprehensive system that includes man’s welfare and that it preserves mans’ rights in parallelism with community’s.
2- Applying laws of obligatory education; and expanding the secondary education whether technical or academic.
3- Developing curriculums and school instrument in a way that comply with the philosophy of education and pedagogy, thier goals in Palestine and requisites of complying with the modern age.
4- Paying consideration to humanities and concentrating on learning languages ,especially the Arabic language in different stages.
5- Strengthening ethics of education and pedagogy, respecting rights of teachers and developing their capacities.
6- Prescriping legislations that keep the academic and educational process at universities and higher educational institutions away from absurdity, temperament and nepotism.
7- Establishing and developing institutions to sponsor creative and talented people and those who have special capabilities.
8- Developing institutions of higher education and supporting fields of scientific research including the establishing the Palestinian Scientific Research Center.
9- Encouraging student’s syndicalistic wok, providing the proper atmosphere for the work and support of students’ unions so that such unions would be able to perform their desired roles. The schools and universities will thus remain fortresses for national work.
10- Securing sportive and cultural utilities, scientific labs and computer in all schools nationwide.
11- Providing different specializations in different areas through attracting qualified Palestinians migrants and training the qualified Palestinians residing at home.
12- Encouraging scouting activities and domestic tourism and making such activities requisites of educational process especially through curriculums of national education.
13- Encouraging private educational institutions in pre-university stages because such institutions are helping to economize state’s balance and they provide competition that benefits education in general.
14- Allowing licenses for specific universities (private and unprofitable) to encourage competition that leads to develop qualified persons. Such competition will also encourage students to remain inside the country which, in turn, will provide new financial resources.
15- Paying concern to technical education and training as well as agricultural education.
16- Developing strategies of education so that it would take care of qualified people and reject employment nepotism. Strategies of education should also concentrate on quality of students graduated from the educational system.
17- Supporting the fund of needy college students and developing mechanisms of such fund so that it would be most transparent and objective, and would be able to reach aid to those who deserve it.



Eighth: Preaching and guidance:


1- Increasing the competence of preachers, giving them rights equal to their counterparts in other ministries (i.e. promotions, grades, material incentives) as well as prescriping legislations and systems capable of achieving justice.
2- stopping all forms of interventions on part of security bodies in such body. Enabling scholars to play their role as well as stopping expulsion policy.
3- Reconsidering preaching and guidance law in order to give chance to people of knowledge and competence to perform their religious and national duties.
4- Taking care of mosques as well as activating their preaching and educational role inside the community.
5- Following up issues of Hajj and Omra in order to facilitate the performance of their rites.


Ninth: Social Policy


1- Supporting the sound foundation and coherence of Palestinian family in order to be the strong base that preserves our social and ethical values.
2- Achieving social solidarity, encouraging and expanding the existing social protection network in order to guarantee political and economic stability of the family as well as enhancing constituents of resistance.
3- Providing social (e.g. education, health, social insurance) as well as other public services for all Palestinians and away from nepotism.
4- Unifying retirement system in order to achieve equity and justice among retired people.
5- Regarding civil law and Shar`i courts (Islamic courts):


• There is a need to pass a law driven from Islamic law as well as choosing what suits the development of Palestinian Muslim society.
• Passing legislations related to Palestinian (Shar`i) religious courts at different levels, therefore, such legislations could be applied in the same manner in courts (of Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza). This includes entailment law, heritage law and non Muslim factions.
• Representing religious courts in Palestinian constitutional court in a reasonable percentage.


6- Preserving social unity for Palestinian people and public ethics, providing guarantee not to violate social bases and preventing passing any legislations that may affect them.
7- Supporting social institutions that cares for different community groups (e.g. women, child, orphans, and poor people of special needs).
8- Developing educational, training and rehabilitating institutions and centers that are taking care of prisoners and reporters in order to integrate them inside the community and allow their contribution in nation development.
9- Providing educational and comprehensive care to martyrs and detainees families and all needy groups inside the society.
10- Activating, developing and organizing Zakkah committees.
11- Fighting poverty through establishment of justice, fortune distribution and encouraging charity institutions by removing restrictions.
12- Developing social insurance systems in order to end poverty and to keep social unity, prevailing in Palestinian society.
13- Fighting drugs, wines and all forms of corruption through culture, raising awareness, education and activation of law.
14- Supporting institutions that tske of handicapped and people of special needs; and developing programs of their integration with the society.
15- Adopting a clear policy that cares of the human element through develpoing the labour human force and achieving job safety and workers psychological stability.
16- Activating and supporting reconciliation commitees, as they have a role in the society and in defusing tension among those who are at odds.
Ten: Cultural and Media Policy:


Due to the important role of culture and media in forming citizen’s mentality and thoughts; and in building the character of the Ummah; so our list will work on:


1- Setting up media policy on bases of free thinking and expression; and on fairness.
2- Protecting citizens, especially youngsters, against spoilage, Westernization ,thought invasion; and resisting cultural normalization.
3- Facilating the mission of media men and means; and the right of audience to know the truth.
4- Stopping the interference of security bodies in giving licenses for publishing houses, research centers, publications and opinion survey centers.
5- Rising cultural standard and public awareness of rights, duties, responsibilities and their consequences.
6- Activating public mass media, and liberating them of group orientation, and consolidating professionalism and transparancy in their programs.
7- Establishing public institutions and encourging the establishment of private ones that is interested in Palestinian heritage and its modern history and sacred places.
8- Directing government mass media towards raising Palestinian society and consolidating its endurance and resistance. They will be a platform that expresses honestly the struggle of the Palestinian people and the nobleness of their cause. Add to this, providing a space for politicians, thinkers and media men to put forth their subjects freely, without violating fixed national values.


Eleven: Woman, Child and Family Issues:


1- Protecting and taking care of children, and stressing its right to be brought up, fed, psychologically and physicaly raised, guided and educated.
2- Palestinian woman is partner in Jihad and resistance; and in building and development.
3- Ensuring the rights of woman, and completeing the lgeslative frame consladting her, and working on enabling her of contribtion to social, economic and political development.
4- Fortificating women by Islamic education; edifying her with her legislative rights; and stressing her independent character based on virtuousness, modesty and moral obligation.
5- Activating the role of constructive volunteer institutions for woman, as they are a part of civil society institutions.
6- Establishing guiding units in the countryside for carpets, mats and textile ,..etc to ensure job opportunities for countrywoman.
7- Encouraging the investment of woman powers in public work, and highlighting her role in building the society.
8- Supporting family stability through:
* developing legeislations concerning working woman, to achieve family stability and youngsters protection and care.
* joint liability with families whose houses demolished and sons detained and chased.
* providing suitable health clinics and hospitals, a matter that will lead to family general health, especially related to motherhood and infancy.
* Protecting women against all forms of exploiting her femininity, i.e. using her in a way that degrades her dignity, treating her as a body only in prpaganda and advertisement, or in in illigal acts.



Tweleve: Youth Issues:


1- expanding the establishment of youth institutions and developing the existing ones, which will ensure building a sound youth character ,and encouraging youth dialogue platforms.
2- Supporting sporting and cultural clubs, and putting and end to interferences in their affairs, and fighting negative phenomena in them.
3- Supporting and encouraging creative youth in all fields, and providing job and creativity opportunities for young people according to their interests.
4- Working on taking care of the youth, and fortificating them against all means of spoilage and moral deviation.
5- Providing suitable and good job opportunities for the youth, especially university graduates.
6- Increasing the space of youth participation generally in useful political, social, cultural and artistic activities.
7- Supporting different sporting teams which would ensure their participation in local, Arab, Islamic and international championships. Working on setting up halls and playgrounds that serve this purpose.


Thirteen: Housing Policy:


1- Alloting some public lands to construct housing blocks and towns, and distributing them on those with limited income, especially people whose houses were demolished poor families, and families of martyrs and detainees.
2- Lessening the problem of housing for those of limited income of the Palestinian people, and lessening the problem of crowded houses, especially in Gaza Strip, and some of areas of the west Bank.
3- Encouraging the establishment of job housing complexes of public institutions like schools, hospitals, universities and public facilities.
4- Justice in distributing charity housing buildings, which will encourage the benefactors to continue supporting these projects.
5- Concentrating on activating constructions sector through providing easy finance for hosing and public building projects.
This will contribute relatively quick in :
• Solving unemployment problem among Palestinians who used to working for the Israeli economy, especially they have the experience and skill in constructions. Moreover there would be containing of tens of thousands of new workers, especially those with low skill.
• Decreasing rent bills the government pays for the buildings it occupies, so lessening the load of balance, and directing the resources to other priorities.
• Developing social services through providing new buildings or expanding the existing ones, especially in the field of education and health care.
6- Providing apartments for junior employees and those with limited income. This will be in the cost price and in facilitated installments free of usury; and encouraging housing contracts and handling cases of difficulties.
7- Approving structural and regional blueprints of Palestinian towns and villages.


Fourteen: Health and Environment Policy:


1- Mending health insurance system, and make it available for all citizens starting with the most needy poor class.
2- Putting a time plan to achieve medical self sufficiency in all fields, in order to prevent squandering of money in remedy abroad.
3- Expanding the services of primary health care and general health centers, to facilitate remedy, and to lessen the load on citizens in villages and cities.
4- Developing general health services to be similar to these in the private sector.
5- Putting required plans for expanding the building of integrated hospitals according to regions needs.
6- Striking a balance in specializations and experiences in hospitals, and fair distribution of qualified staffs and equipments in all areas.
7- Providing material encouragements for doctors, nurses , workers in the field of health, workers in faraway areas, and those with rare specialization working in the health field.
8- Encouraging special and specialized health services.
9- Setting high standards for health sector (doctors, pharmacists, nurses and health departments) according to what suitable for the needs and requirements of the Palestinian society.
10- Providing suitable health facilities to take care of the Palestinian who were injured and became handicapped during Palestinian struggle; and of all the people of Palestine without discrimination.
11- Providing the suitable and free care for the families of martyrs, injured and handicapped people and POW’s.
12- Working on creating a clean environment through developing the culture of general cleaning, and planting trees in roads and public parks; and encouraging the setting up of private and public gardens.
13- Protecting the environment and stopping the Palestinian environmental deterioration, through coordination with international organizations. Moreover, resisting the continuing environmental pollution of Palestinian lands, resulted from the occupation and the Zionist settlements ; and working on these practices in international gatherings.
14- Keeping Gaza sea beach clean and beautiful and valid for and tourism; and stopping aggression against it, i.e. throwing and garbage ; and stopping environmental pollution resulted from turning sewers water to seawater.
15- Following up with the prepared studies to get rid of the environmental disaster resulted from the processing pools in the northern of Gaza Strip; and to specify new lands to increase the number of ” main garbage cans ” in Gaza Strip and West Bank, and setting up projects to make use of them.



Fifteen: Agricultural Policy:


1- Developing the agricultural sector and animal waelth towrds achieving food safety for the Palestinian people., then working on achieving extra productin for exportation.
2- Working on categorizing the Palestinian lands and determining its usage, like citrus, grains, fruits, roses,..etc, and prescriping legeslations needed for developing them.
3- Re-forming and activatig the Farmers Union in order to reach all the nation’s governorates, to contribute in applying the agricultural policies aiming at raising up this important sector.
4- Working on adopting an agricultural lending system instead of usury system. Encouraging agricultural lending in kind.
5- Working on enhancing coordination among institutions concerned with the agricultural sector on policy, production, industry and marketing levels; and working on opening the international and Arab markets to the Palestinian products, especially the agricultural ones within the available preferential treatment agreements.
6- Approving the comprehesive rural development method, as a frame to the agriculture development through providing necessary infrastructure for agricultural projects.
7- Encouraging food industry projects to make use of the extra production, and working on developing the qualities of seeds, seedlings, herbicides and home-made fertilizers.
8- Caring of fish waelth, and protecting the fishermen rights.
9- Regulating the importing, marketing and using of agricultural or veterinary fertilizers and medicine; and rationing the usage of chemicals fertilizers, and providing the agricultural guiding services.
10- Encouraging land reclamation, and supporting its cultivating and irrigation.
11- Working on developing animal wealth, and reducing the gap between the supply and demand.
12- Monitoring the performance of “Coast Water” authority, to achieve the interest of nation and citizens.



Sixteenth: Economic, Financial And Monetary Policy:


Allah (SWT) Says:
” Those who, when they spend, are not extravagant and not niggardly, but hold a just (balance) between those (extremes)”
And :” Allah will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of charity “


1-Achieving an economic ,currency independence and disengagment with the Zionist entity ,its economy and curency . also getting rid of its dependency and seeking for having a palestinian currency .
2- Reviewing and developing the economic and monetary laws .
3- Providing the proper procedural and legal environment to encourage investment and enact a vital additional economic laws as: antitrust and customs laws.
4-Seeking for constructing the resisting economy , encouraging self independence, avoiding forms of lavishness and levity , and bewaring of unproductive projects,or those which corrupt the social and moral structure like nightclubs and gambling houses..etc.
5- The well-planned distribution of projects and the expansion of its geographic and human areas to protect them and to ease the probabilities of restriction, siege ,and assault of the enemy .
6- Reviewing and developing the international economical aggreaments to take into consideration the palestinian economy situation.
The most important of them:


Paris economical treaty
The free- zone treaty with the USA
The partenership traety with the EU
The economical cooperation treaty with egypt and jordan.
7-Developing the economical and trade relation with the arab and islamic world through privileged trade treaties that contribute in developing the palestinian economy and helping it to get rid of the israeli economy dependence .
8-Putting the economical policies (monetary ,currency,trade, employment ,industry,agriculture) that works ( during the 4 years of the legislative council )in order to achieve the balanced economical development , reinforce self abilities , protect marginalized categories ,keep the social solidarity and achieve stability of wages and prices.also to fight poverty ,reduce unemployment rate , keep the inflation adjusted ,achieve an economical growth and improve the standard of living .
9- Developing the infrastructure in order to be suitable for the agriculture ,industry and public services and concentrating on training and qualifying the palestinian labour force to be fit for the palestinian market needs ,thus solving the problem of depending on the israeli economy in employment.
10- Protecting the properties and puplic money and using it in a way that achieve the public benefit for the present and future generations, and this require an ambitious program of administrative and monetary reform in all the authority institutions, using the international funds in a perfect way which achieve the thorough development aims away from the misuse and squandering and the achievement of social justice by these means .
11-Reviewing the prices of gas,oil derivatives
,electricity ,phone and water to help the individual .
12- Caring about the palestinian productive sectors through appling the recommendations of the serious scientific studies especially those which help in developing the self abilities of palestine economy .
13- Developing the palestinian custom and trade policy to suit the developing situation of the palestinian economy and the aims and characteristic of the palestinian external trade .
14-Reframing the income tax law to be descending in order to help the low- income individual , modifying the indirect taxes of the Palestinian economy and reducing the value added tax to suit the Palestinian developed level.


Seventeen: labor and Workers issues:


1- Respecting, developing and encouraging the professional unions and associations.
2- specifying minimum limit for wages in different labor sectors, in order to provide an acceptable and a noble standard of living.
3- Carrying out a serious national plan to deal with the unemployment basing on programs of developing self abilities of the Palestinian economy and the perfect use of the Palestinian public money (both the self and international funds).
4-Spreading the work culture and awareness concerning the rights and obligations between all the workers in all sectors and with different legal methods.
5- Workers in all sectors should be under the comprehensive health insurance .
6- Developing the law of work and workers and the unions should be promoted to insure workers rights and their right in the union work and to go along with the stage developments and achieving justice with all workers in the different production sectors.
7-linking the workers wages and salaries with the table of high cost of living.
Eighteenth : Transportation and Crossing Points:


1- rehabilitation of all the roads with new specifications.
2-building new vital roads between cities and villages, and keeping the recopensation right for each citizen affected by that.
3-stressing on free active communication between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
13- Openning free crossings among Palestinian teritories, Egypt and Jordan; and rejecting any foreign intervention.
14- Working on opening the port and airport to achieve development of Palestinian economy, and serving the communication among the people of the one nation inside andoutside Palestine.



Epilogue :


The blessed intifada had settled new facts on ground , caused the oslo program to be a past history ,and the various parties, including the zionist occupation , spoke of “the burial of oslo “.
Now our people are more coherent ,awaring and hard to manage .
Hamas is going ahead the elections as it became able by God s help and with the cooperation of all the honests to support the resistence course and root it in our people s minds and souls .
Dear voter ….that is our program ,we put it in your hands…and we share you the ambition ,put our hands in yours , we don’t pretend that we make miracles or have the magic stick .
But we do our best to achieve our national project on the way of our greatest aims..a one free wise nation..
Dear voter …the responsibility is common,and god raises and develops the good doing .
Our system depends on honest and qualified representatives ,that raise a slogan says: honesty for god ,loyalty for him , people and the cause . so be absolutely confident that they ll apply their slogans and they will fullfill their promises.
Dear voter
When you are in front of the polls remember your responsibility between god hands ..you are entrusted with your testimony to choose your representative in the legislative council ..when this representative speaks and has the final word of the future ,nation and religion ; he expresses yourself , so choose the best to please your generous god and your great prophet (pbuh)


” truly the best of men for thee to employ is the (man) who is strong and trusty”


Yes, choose the best to be happy and to please your people god s will.
“islam is the solution “ is our way to change and reform .
our program is our way to support the society which has been destroyed by the occupation and protect its resistence.
Our program is our way to support the islamic and national unity towards thorough national liberty .
Our program is the people’s and whole nation’s program.


” And say: “Work (righteousness): Soon will Allah observe your work, and His Messenger, and the Believers: Soon will ye be brought back to the knower of what is hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did.”