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Eugene

(62,660 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 07:52 PM Oct 2017

Israel 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 Minister’s 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
The Israelis negotiated with Arafat and Abbas Mosby Oct 2017 #3
Apartheid is israels problem... How much longer one can only wonder. Shame, shame, Purveyor Oct 2017 #4
That's a lie oberliner Nov 2017 #7
I thought Jared was all over this.... Thomas Hurt Oct 2017 #2
Bebe will never work or a peace process, nor will DK504 Oct 2017 #5
What would be the point? hack89 Oct 2017 #6
 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
1. Israel will never negotiate with any Palestinian regardless of who it is. Never did.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 07:59 PM
Oct 2017

Apartheid reins supreme...just as they want it.

Mosby

(17,477 posts)
3. The Israelis negotiated with Arafat and Abbas
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 08:22 PM
Oct 2017

But the Palestinian leaders couldn't do a deal.

That's not Israel's problem.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
5. Bebe will never work or a peace process, nor will
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 09:06 PM
Oct 2017

he ever abide by any agreements already in place. If the Israelis want peace they need to get rid of the war mongering criminal.

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