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December 08, 2006
Hamas: we will never recognise Israel
But that will not stop Bush and Baker and Rice from forcing Israel to make more concessions in the hopes of winning that chimerical recognition. From The Guardian Unlimited, with thanks to Kasper:
The Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, today said his Hamas-led government will never recognise Israel and will continue to fight for the liberation of Jerusalem.
"We will never recognise the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem," Mr Haniyeh told thousands of Friday prayer worshippers at Tehran University in Iran.
The comments underline the difficulty of the task confronting Tony Blair, who confirmed yesterday at a joint press conference in Washington with George Bush that he is to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories in a last push for peace before he leaves office next year. Mr Haniyeh, who is on his first foreign visit since his Hamas-led government took office in March after a surprise election victory, called Iran, a long-time ally of Hamas, the Palestinians' "strategic depth".
Difficulty? How about impossibility?
Posted by Robert at December 8, 2006 07:42 AM
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Russia Hopsital Fire
RUSSIA-HOSPITAL FIRE
Fire kills 45 women at hospital in Moscow, arson is suspected
MOSCOW (AP) _ At least 45 people are dead in Moscow, killed in the city's deadliest fire in three years.
All the victims from the fire in a drug treatment hospital were women.
Russian authorities say the blaze broke out early Saturday in a women's ward, filling it with heavy smoke. The chief fire inspector says he's "90-percent certain" that the fire was caused by arson. Although the ITAR-Tass news agency says investigators are also looking into other possibilities, including a trash fire.
Officials say the victims were trapped between the fire and a locked gate. Most died from asphyxiation. Some died from burns.
According to an emergency official, all the women were dead by the time firefighters arrived. He says "judging by the placement of the bodies, they really tried to get out."
A fire department spokesman says 160 people were evacuated from the five-story building. Ten of them are hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning.
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