MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - The terrorist attack in Israel raises questions about the Palestinian plan to join the United Nations, said Mikhail Margelov, head of the Federation Council International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council.
"The latest terror attack in Israel is not an ordinary terrorist claim for attention, not just another killing of the Israelis. However, it is a strike carried out by Hamas against Fatah and personally Abu Mazen [head of the Palestinian National Authority] against Palestine's plan to join the UN as a full member of this organization," Margelov told Interfax on Friday.
The terrorist attack will only make the opponents of this plan more convinced that Palestine "increasingly looks like a failed state with no united leadership," he said.
By such actions, Hamas condemns itself "to political mediocrity and loses its right to consider itself as a political movement," Margelov said.