Clinton: Hamas must recognize Israel
On the eve of her visit to the West Bank for meetings with Palestinian Authority leaders, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ruled out working with any Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas if Hamas does not agree to recognize Israel. CNN
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When the Hamas charter states
""There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
what's there to negotiate?
Thank you!
C-1, there is one journalist, he's not pro -Israel, but because he works for an Israeli newspaper he can be more open. You might find his take refreshing, or at least interesting.
Its from Michael Totten's blog.
Hamas has to recognize Israel. As much as I criticize Israel's recent approach to Gaza, that issue is non negotiable. But at the same time civilians can not pay the price even if Hamas is using them as human shields. This is a classic stalemate.
Well, if you wanted a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, all you had to do was vote for Mike Gravel (Democratic and Libertarian candidate for president in the 2008 election), who said in an interview that, if elected president, "I will bring peace between the Israelis and Palestinians and thereby diffuse the entire confrontation between the Islamic world and the West."
That's the beauty of being a snowball-in-hell candidate. You can say whatever the hell you want, because you know you'll never be held to your promises. But what if by some miracle one of these guys actually ended up being elected? That would be fun. No, it wouldn't.
Grata - A true stalemate. I don't have an answer. Right now, even though Hamas have been know to use them as human shields, they are preferred over Fatah -that's considered too corrupt.
Kylopod - Oh now this is interesting.
"I will bring peace between the Israelis and Palestinians and thereby diffuse the entire confrontation between the Islamic world and the West."
LOL!
I'm going to be laughing for days about this one. Perhaps it was a Purim joke?
I wish it were a joke. Unfortunately, Mike Gravel is very real, and very serious. (And very old--he was around 76 or 77 when he gave that interview. McCain was actually only the fourth oldest candidate in the race: Paul, Nader, and Gravel were all older than him.)
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