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Hamas ready to accept 1967 borders
aljazeera ^ | MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2008 20:37 MECCA TIME

Posted on 04/21/2008 11:33:59 PM PDT by Red Steel

Hamas has said it is ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders but "will not recognise Israel".

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas political leader, reaffirmed Hamas's stance towards Israel and clarified his comments as relayed earlier by Jimmy Carter, the former US president.

"We accept a state on the June 4 line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees but without recognising Israel," Meshaal said.

The Hamas leader was making his first public comments following two meetings with Carter in Damascus last week.

Carter, speaking in Jerusalem earlier on Monday, said that Hamas had told him it would accept the right of Israel "to live as a neighbour" if a peace deal was approved by a Palestinian referendum.

Carter said Hamas leaders had told him they would "accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians".

But Carter also said Meshaal turned down his appeal for a unilateral ceasefire with Israel to end violence threatening peace efforts.

"I did the best I could on that," Carter said of his failure to persuade Hamas to halt rocket fire for one month from the Gaza Strip it has controlled since June when it ousted the Fatah movement of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.

US dismisses comments

The United States brushed off Carter's report on Hamas on Monday, saying the group's basic stance had not changed.

"What is clear to us ... is that nothing has changed in terms of Hamas's basic views about Israel and about peace in the region," Tom Casey, the state department spokesman, said.

"They still refuse to acknowledge or recognise any of the basic quartet principles, including recognising Israel's right to exist; renouncing terrorism; and acknowledging all the previous agreements that have been made between the Palestinian Authority and Israel," he added.

Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, said the Hamas position should be taken "with a grain of salt".

"We have to look at the public comments and we also have to look at actions, and actions speak louder than words."

Referendum

Carter said his understandings with Hamas called for a referendum to be preceded by reconciliation between the group and Abbas's Fatah faction.

In his news conference, Meshaal said Hamas would "respect Palestinian national will, even if it was against our convictions".

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Gaza-based Hamas official, said Palestinian refugees living in exile must take part in a referendum - a condition that could dim the chances of approval since Israel opposes their mass return, which could skew the state's ethnic make up.

Ghazi Hamad, a former Palestinian government spokesman, told Al Jazeera that Hamas would be willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders (leaving a reduced Israeli state inside its 1948 borders) but insisted that Hamas would not recognise Israel.

"Hamas says frankly - we will not recognise the right of Israel," he said.

"Israel until now has no clear position on recognising the rights of the Palestinian people within the 1967 borders or the right of return or the rights in Jerusalem."

He also said that a ceasefire with Israel was possible.

"Many times Hamas has stopped firing missiles from Gaza but Israel continues its aggression against our people, especially in Gaza," he told Al Jazeera.

"If Israel stops all military aggression against our people, I think Hamas will have no problem in reaching a compromise."

Carter criticised

Carter's meeting with Hamas has drawn criticism from both the Israeli and US administrations.

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has refused to see Carter, who has for years been critical of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians.

Carter, who helped negotiate a 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, said excluding Hamas is "just not working".

"The problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet with these people, who must be involved," he said.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1967borders; deathlines; holocaustborders; israel
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To: Red Steel
What "Jimmah" really wants is to build a wall around Israel:


21 posted on 04/22/2008 1:56:45 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Red Steel
AwWWWWW, Hamas will accept the 1967 borders for TEN WHOLE YEARS.

Isn't that just peachy?

22 posted on 04/22/2008 2:17:12 AM PDT by Cheapskate (Still backing Hunter"I refuse to be fitted with collar and chain, and given a pat on the back")
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To: Red Steel

1982 borders or Israel gets bigger! Final offer.


23 posted on 04/22/2008 3:55:13 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: F15Eagle
Negotiating with terrorists is a waste of time.

It's time to revoke Carter's passport. He's working against the best interests of the United States.

24 posted on 04/22/2008 3:57:03 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Forget it...I'll never be able to pull the lever for McCain!)
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To: Caipirabob
It's time to pull Jimmy's passport, and say Nie Wieder.
25 posted on 04/22/2008 3:58:33 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Forget it...I'll never be able to pull the lever for McCain!)
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To: Red Steel

Sure, reward the terrorists with a bunch of land.

Who wouldn’t accept those boundaries when it means your side gets back tonnes of territory.

How about we talk with them after they make life better in the places they already control ?!?


26 posted on 04/22/2008 4:50:27 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: SJackson; Salem; Alouette; SunkenCiv

“Hamas ready to accept Israel’s 1967 borders”

Uh-huh. And Santa’s sled is pulled by six purple hippos.


27 posted on 04/22/2008 4:55:40 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("Typical 'bitter' 'White Male" whose vote the Dems now desperately want so bad - HA!)
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To: Red Steel

In 1967, or at any time before or after, were they ready to accept the 1967 borders?


28 posted on 04/22/2008 4:57:50 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: 1st-P-In-The-Pod; 2ndDivisionVet; A_Conservative_in_Cambridge; af_vet_rr; agrace; Aiko; ...
Somebody please provide a list of all the armed conflicts in history that have been resolved by "talks" and "negotiations" and "land for peace."

1.

FReepMail to be added or removed from this pro-Israel/Judaic/Russian Jewry ping list.

Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

29 posted on 04/22/2008 5:04:30 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: TheThinker
So Hamas wants Jerusalem and nonrecognition of Israel. In other words, the right to continue war against an illegitimate Jewish state.

Hell of a deal, Jimmy! Although I think we could have gotten it over the 'phone, and saved all that travel money.

30 posted on 04/22/2008 5:29:22 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Double Domestic Crude Production. Increase refining capacity 50 percent)
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To: Red Steel

I think Israel should just go ahead and an take the rest of the land and, when these terrorists claim Israel has waged war on them, Israel should just ask, “Who?”, as according to these terrorists Israel does not exist and therefore could not possibly attack them.


31 posted on 04/22/2008 6:14:53 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: DieHard the Hunter
The surefire way to put the kibosh on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would be to arrest Carter at the border for violating the Logan Act.

I'll second that.
32 posted on 04/22/2008 6:37:48 AM PDT by bearsgirl90
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To: Red Steel

Dhimmmi Jhimmi is the queen of clubs in my 1st deck of domestic enemies playing cards.


33 posted on 04/22/2008 6:45:16 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Red Steel

Translation: “As usual, we’ll take more land and money, but we won’t give anything in return. Cough it up, Jimmy, so we can get on to the next stage of the Intifada.”


34 posted on 04/22/2008 7:57:02 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Red Steel
We accept a state on the June 4 line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees but without recognising Israel," Meshaal said

Sure. Is there anything else you'd like, Meshaal - the world's gold, all its people as your slaves, every last Jew slaughtered?
35 posted on 04/22/2008 8:08:20 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (feh)
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To: Convert from ECUSA; AdmSmith; Berosus; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
"We accept a state on the June 4 line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees but without recognising Israel," Meshaal said.
IOW, no change in Hamas' position. Thanks C from E.
36 posted on 04/22/2008 8:16:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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“Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas political leader” discusses non-binding policy statements with an non-credentialed non-diplomat and ex-President of the US.


37 posted on 04/22/2008 8:20:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: Red Steel
The only thing Hamas needs to except is, they are Islamic death cultists and require extra long prison terms for the criminally & mentally deranged.

Hamas summer camp for junior serial killers

38 posted on 04/22/2008 10:08:03 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: Red Steel
"We accept a state on the June 4 line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees but without recognising Israel," Meshaal said.

In. other. words.

We accept a Palestinian state with 1967 borders but we don't accept Israel's borders.

So transparent, makes me wonder if they sit around chuckling at how clever they think they are.

39 posted on 04/22/2008 10:35:50 AM PDT by agrace
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To: Red Steel

HamASS wants to go to War against the State that according to them did not exist in 1967.


40 posted on 04/22/2008 5:28:52 PM PDT by Radix (Sometimes a post is just a post.)
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