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Article: Hamas official warns no coalition government if asked to recognizeIsrael
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Hamas official warns no coalition government if asked to recognize
Israel
GAZA, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian official from the ruling
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) warned Friday that Hamas would
not join a planned coalition government if it is asked to recognize
Israel first, said media reports.
Ahmed Yousef, political adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haneya
told reporters that there will be no national unity government if
Hamas is asked to recognize Israel.
The political program of the proposed unity government did not
include recognizing Israel, he stressed.
Instead of recognizing Israel, Hamas was prepared to agree to a
"long-term truce" with the Jewish state, which might ...