Hamas renews offer to end fight if Israel withdraws
Reuters reports in the link above:
Speaking on the Charlie Rose programme on U.S. PBS television, [Hamas leader Khaled] Meshaal directly addressed the issue of armed resistance, which is the basis of its ideology as a national liberation movement.
“Israel started (the conflict) by the occupation so the resistance is a reaction. The action is the occupation, and the reaction from the Palestinians is that it ends,” Meshaal said, in an interview taped on Thursday, according to a transcript released by PBS.
“So when the occupation comes to an end, the resistance will end, as simple as that. If Israel would go to the 1967 borders … that will be the end of the Palestinian resistance.”
Meshaal said if a “Palestinian state with real sovereignty” were established under the conditions he set out, then the nature of any subsequent ties with Israel would be decided democratically by the Palestinians.
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