Quote of the day: Despite Hamas’s charter calling for the elimination of Israel, Haniyeh’s conciliatory note to the American president conveyed a different message. “We are so concerned about stability and security in the area that we don’t mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders and offering a truce for many years,” Haniyeh wrote to Bush. This essentially added up to an offer of de facto recognition of Israel with a cessation of hostilities — two of the key U.S. and Israeli demands of Hamas. “The continuation of this situation,” Haniyeh wrote to Bush, “will encourage violence and chaos in the whole region.”
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:44:24 +0000
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