Hamas: we will never recognize Israel

[cali]

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".

"They (Israelis) assume the Palestinian nation is alone. This is an illusion ... We have a strategic depth in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This country (Iran) is our powerful, dynamic and stable depth," he said.

Mr Haniyeh is in Iran for talks with Iranian leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map".

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1967676,00.html

[EFerrari]

1. Shame on the Guardian for running this propaganda.

Why not just run cartoons where all Hamas are horned?

[cali]

2. Propaganda?

This story is in many newspapers today. They are all replete with quotes. How does that constitute propaganda. Are you suggesting that The Guardian, hardly a paper known to slant things towards Israel, is making this story up? Please explain how this story is propaganda.

On edit: Is the Iranian Students News Agency also printing Iraeli propaganda?

http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-839656&Lang=E

[EFerrari]

5. The story is in many newspapers and REPLETE with

quotations?

Oh, well, then I was misguided.

:rofl:

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[pelsar]

8. is hamas lying?

in fact if anything, like hizballa, they have a reputation (and similar to the settlers) of saying what they believe..they have been very clear about their goals and beliefs. Only those who have trouble believing them pretend that they " dont really mean it"....

perhaps an exclamation why they are lying to us about their beliefs is in order?

[Missy M]

3. It seems that neither will recognize the others existence.

[newyorican]

4. Quite true...

There appears to be a 2-way recognition problem.

[cali]

6. Prime Minister Haniyeh's

speech was not merely about not recognizing Israel- something I don't think should preclude Israel from entering into discussions with the Palestinians, it was the stridency of his language as regards "liberating" Jerusalem. What do you think that means? He did not specify E. Jerusalem.

[UndertheOcean]

7. the only condolence is that Hamas got 42% of the vote (less than half)

in a time when many voted for them just for change and being fed up with corruption...

And hopefully , little by little , they may loose more support. And come next election they'll gain less seats.

If a referendum is held today , the majority of palestinians will agree on the recognition of Israel

Until then , with such rhetoric , there will never be peace.