Hamas taking hard line over peace negotiations

Masked Palestinian Hamas militants hold a press conference in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra


Attacks on settlers will continue unless the rulers of Gaza can be accommodated, writes MICHAEL JANSEN� BY RESPONDING with violence to the resumption of Fatah-Israeli negotiations, Hamas, ruler of Gaza, is demonstrating that there can be no peace between the Palestinians and Israel unless Hamas is involved. Hamas's military wing has so far staged...


Attacks on settlers will continue unless the rulers of Gaza can be accommodated, writes MICHAEL JANSEN� BY RESPONDING with violence to the resumption of Fatah-Israeli negotiations, Hamas, ruler of Gaza, is demonstrating that there can be no peace between the Palestinians and Israel unless Hamas is involved. Hamas's military wing has so far staged two drive-by shootings in the West Bank, killing four settlers near the contested city of Hebron and wounding two near the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority's administrative centre of Ramallah. Mahmoud Zahar, a leading Hamas figure in Gaza, said attacks and targeting of settlers would continue in...


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ' The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip rejected compromise with Israel in a fiery speech Wednesday, a day after gunmen killed four Israelis in a strong reminder that the Islamic militant group cannot be ignored in any Mideast deal. President Barack Obama denounced the West Bank ambush as he launched a two-day summit marking the first Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in nearly two years. 'The message should go out to Hamas and everyone else who is taking credit for these


JERUSALEM - Israeli police say Palestinian militants have wounded two Israelis driving in the West Bank in the second such attack since Mideast peace talks opened in Washington. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli car traveling in the West Bank late Wednesday. He said two people were injured, one seriously. The car was riddled with bullets, he said. It is the second attack on Israeli civilians since peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians resumed


JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It's the proverbial elephant in the room, the ghost at the banquet, the spectre no one wants to acknowledge. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks at a parade marking the end of an Arab Youth Resistance training camp, organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) General Command, in al-Rihan in Damascus August 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri/Files) Even if Israel and the Palestinians can scale a mountain of scepticism and reach a peace treaty in the


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip rejected compromise with Israel in a fiery speech Wednesday, a day after gunmen killed four Israelis in a strong reminder that the Islamic militant group cannot be ignored in any Mideast deal. President Barack Obama denounced the West Bank ambush as he launched a two-day summit marking the first Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in nearly two years. "The message should go out to Hamas and everyone else who is taking credit for these ....

Even with tension high in much of the West Bank after Hamas gunmen killed four Israeli settlers on Wednesday night, Sana Shabitah, 40, had been determined to come here yesterday to register her disapproval of Mahmoud Abbas's trip to Washington. Saying that angry settlers protesting about the shootings had blocked the road between her home in Nablus and Ramallah and thrown stones at Palestinian cars, she declared: "I don't support the negotiations. We don't have anything tangible on the ground.








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