It also followed a landmark agreement Tuesday between Palestinian factions on an political initiative that implicitly recognises Israel's right to exist, a historic shift in policy by Hamas.
Guess AFP didn't do their homework, or maybe they just forgot to check eh? I mean they wouldn't lie to us , would they?
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Guess AFP didn't do their homework, or maybe they just forgot to check eh? I mean they wouldn't lie to us , would they?
/sarc"
Naw. Neither would the following most conservative of anti-terrorist publications in another western European nation.
Hamas U-turn on Israel's right to exist
The Telegraph By Tim Butcher in Gaza City
(Filed: 28/06/2006)
Excerpt:
With Israel threatening to re-invade Gaza, Hamas, the militant Palestinian movement, made a historic policy reversal yesterday when it signed up to an agreement implicitly recognising the right of the Jewish state to exist.
Hamas takes 'historic' stepThe Scotsman BEN LYNFIELD
Excerpt:
HAMAS yesterday took its biggest step yet towards recognising Israel by agreeing to a programme that calls for establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip alongside the Jewish state, Palestinian officials said.
Israeli troops roll into Gaza
The Times Online By Stephen Farrell and Ian MacKinnon
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The military moves came as Hamas executed a dramatic shift in policy to reach an agreement that implicitly recognises Israel."
But it doesn't surprise me at all.
British Mandate for Palestine (WW I to 1948) [Historical info that all should read.]