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Related: About this forumIsrael Says It Will Not Negotiate with a Hamas-based Palestinian Government
Source: Jerusalem Post
ISRAEL SAYS IT WILL NOT NEGOTIATE WITH A HAMAS-BASED PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT
BY HERB KEINON OCTOBER 17, 2017 18:43
The statement was the first operative decision made by the Israeli government toward the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement reached earlier this month in Cairo.
2 minute read.
Israel will not conduct diplomatic negotiations with a Palestinian government that relies on Hamas unless the terrorist organization changes fundamentally, the security cabinet decided on Tuesday, in the wake of the recent Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.
According to a statement released by the Prime Ministers Office after the security cabinet meeting, Israel will not hold talks with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas unless it recognizes Israel and stops terrorist activities, in accordance with Quartet principles set over a decade ago.
In addition, the statement said that Hamas must be disarmed, the bodies of Israeli soldiers and the Israeli citizens held by Hamas must be returned and the Palestinian Authority must assume full security control over the Gaza Strip -- including at the border crossings and in the prevention of smuggling arms into the coastal strip.
The other conditions set by the security cabinet for continued negotiations with the PA are that it must continue to thwart Hamas terrorist activity and the building of terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, that Hamas be cut off from Iran and that funds and humanitarian supplies will flow into Gaza only through the PA and other internationally recognized mechanisms set up for this purpose.
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BY HERB KEINON OCTOBER 17, 2017 18:43
The statement was the first operative decision made by the Israeli government toward the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement reached earlier this month in Cairo.
2 minute read.
Israel will not conduct diplomatic negotiations with a Palestinian government that relies on Hamas unless the terrorist organization changes fundamentally, the security cabinet decided on Tuesday, in the wake of the recent Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.
According to a statement released by the Prime Ministers Office after the security cabinet meeting, Israel will not hold talks with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas unless it recognizes Israel and stops terrorist activities, in accordance with Quartet principles set over a decade ago.
In addition, the statement said that Hamas must be disarmed, the bodies of Israeli soldiers and the Israeli citizens held by Hamas must be returned and the Palestinian Authority must assume full security control over the Gaza Strip -- including at the border crossings and in the prevention of smuggling arms into the coastal strip.
The other conditions set by the security cabinet for continued negotiations with the PA are that it must continue to thwart Hamas terrorist activity and the building of terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, that Hamas be cut off from Iran and that funds and humanitarian supplies will flow into Gaza only through the PA and other internationally recognized mechanisms set up for this purpose.
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Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-says-it-will-not-negotiate-with-a-Hamas-based-Palestinian-government-507680
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Israel Says It Will Not Negotiate with a Hamas-based Palestinian Government (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2017
OP
Israel will never negotiate with any Palestinian regardless of who it is. Never did.
Purveyor
Oct 2017
#1
Apartheid is israels problem... How much longer one can only wonder. Shame, shame,
Purveyor
Oct 2017
#4
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)1. Israel will never negotiate with any Palestinian regardless of who it is. Never did.
Apartheid reins supreme...just as they want it.
Mosby
(17,477 posts)3. The Israelis negotiated with Arafat and Abbas
But the Palestinian leaders couldn't do a deal.
That's not Israel's problem.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)4. Apartheid is israels problem... How much longer one can only wonder. Shame, shame,
shame!!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)7. That's a lie
Thomas Hurt
(13,925 posts)2. I thought Jared was all over this....
DK504
(3,847 posts)5. Bebe will never work or a peace process, nor will
he ever abide by any agreements already in place. If the Israelis want peace they need to get rid of the war mongering criminal.
hack89
(39,179 posts)6. What would be the point?
Hamas has no intention of negotiating either.