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Title: | The proper next move | |||
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| Name: | Mark Lincoln | | |||
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| City: | Houston | State: | Texas | | |
| `The offer "was not canceled," Mahmoud al-Zahar said, but added that there was "no room to implement it for the time being" since "there is no one to talk about this proposal with on the other [Israeli] side." - DPA Correct, the current government is a caretaker government and there is `no one to talk` to at this time. "He said a long-term truce was "a project that can be developed when there are intentions." - DPA Intentions? "He said the Hamas government had agreed to accept a Palestinian state that followed the 1967 borders and to offer Israel a long-term hudna, or truce, if Israel recognized the Palestinians` national rights. " - DPA The correct counter is to say that is not good enough. Then the negotiations begin in ernest. Hamas has mad no hard and fast demand or set any preconditions here. It has put forth a starting point. When there IS someone to talk to with both `intentions` of talking, and a real government to represent, the door is open. |
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