Former Fatah security commander Dahlan called on Hamas not to recognize Israels right to exist, pointing out that Fatah had never recognized it.
Commenting on reports that Fatah was demanding that Hamas recognize Israels right to exist as a precondition for the establishment of a Palestinian unity government, he called the reports misleading. Dahlan added: I want to reaffirm that we are not asking Hamas to recognize Israels right to exist. Rather, we are asking Hamas not to do so because Fatah never recognized Israels right to exist.
He explained that it was the PLO, and not Fatah, which recognized Israels right to exist when the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. We acknowledge that the PLO did recognize Israels right to exist, but we are not bound by it as a resistance faction, he added.
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