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Last update - 16:37 11/06/2009
Meshal prods Obama: Drop conditions for Hamas dialogue
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Khaled Meshal, Hamas 

Though Hamas is encouraged by the new tone emanating from Washington, it is urging the Obama administration to drop preconditions for engaging the Islamist organization in dialogue.

"Obama says he will turn a new page in the region and begin a dialogue with the Iranians and with the Syrians unconditionally," Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshal told the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat. "If so, why is he placing conditions on Hamas?"

Meshal told the newspaper that Obama's "concept of a Palestinian state remains vague given that he did not specifically mention the issue of territory, borders, the capital, the right of return, and a time table for the state's establishment."
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"These are essential points," Meshal told Asharq al-Awsat.

The Hamas leader in exile, who maintains offices in Damascus, said he was encouraged by "new, wise language" from the American president, "but the test is not in the language, but it will be in how the decisions are translated on the ground."

Meshal, who was poisoned during an assassination attempt by Israeli intelligence in Amman and later saved due to the intervention of Jordan's late monarch, King Hussein, said the Islamist group is facing adversity.

"We have come to a difficult period," Meshal told the newspaper. "This is not an easy time. Our rights have been violated. We will present our vision."

The pan-Arab daily Al Quds al-Arabi reported on Tuesday that Meshal plans to present his own policy speech after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays out his long-awaited diplomatic vision with an address at Ramat Gan's Bar-Ilan University.
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  1.   Why set `preconditions`? 10:58  |  r cummings 11/06/09
  2.   The removal of the Hamas regime. 11:58  |  Mario Sala 11/06/09
  3.   Obama will succeed with Hamas when he boots the settlers 12:29  |  Ivar 11/06/09
  4.   Preconditions 12:42  |  Jonathan Bird 11/06/09
  5.   #3 Ivar splitting headache 13:25  |  H 11/06/09
  6.   #4 hamas has already achieved both 13:51  |  muslim-- 11/06/09
  7.   Ivar,Hamas will succed when they renounce terror against Gazans, 14:13  |  ME 11/06/09
  8.   Remembering when 15:29  |  Natallie Durson 11/06/09
  9.   Ivar conceptual flaw 15:41  |  arik 11/06/09
  10.   The only precondition: eliminate Hamas 16:28  |  Boruch 11/06/09
  11.   Again, there is no way to dialogue with an intransigent monologue 16:34  |  Akiva P 11/06/09
  12.   Durson 16:35  |  patriot 11/06/09
  13.   what about shalit`s rights? 16:37  |  iDub 11/06/09
  14.   #8 The Usual Nonsense 16:42  |  Bill Foonman 11/06/09
  15.   to Boruch.... Hamas is equal Likud ! 16:46  |  Antonio da Silva 11/06/09
  16.   muslim @# 6 16:50  |  Akiva P 11/06/09
  17.   Natallie in a nutshell 17:03  |  Akiva P 11/06/09
  18.   There are talks going on about talks 17:17  |  Chris Linthwaite 11/06/09
  19.   r cummings, you`re completely missing the point 17:24  |  Doug 11/06/09
  20.   Hamas will be included, there is no other way... 17:27  |  BBSNews 11/06/09
  21.   Hamas not a sovereign state 17:34  |  Mr. Red 11/06/09
  22.   HAMAS IS A TERROR ORGANISATION 17:45  |  Alka Seltzer 11/06/09
  23.   Akiva P 17:48  |  Natallie Durson 11/06/09
  24.   "hudnas" defintitely work 18:03  |  Arie 11/06/09
  25.   Painful concession - just release Gilad Shalit to the Red Cross 18:14  |  lily 11/06/09
  26.   Preconditions #1 18:17  |  Richard 11/06/09
  27.   All Obama does is talk, so who cares who he talks to??? 18:50  |  Voice of Reason 11/06/09
  28.   Akiva P cannot address Nat`s facts... 19:04  |  BBSNews 11/06/09
  29.   Be patient Meshal... 19:18  |  yeiel 11/06/09
  30.   #8 Nice Try ND 20:11  |  Alex 11/06/09
  31.   Bravo Natalie 21:56  |  Basim 11/06/09
  32.   The Truth 22:33  |  J 11/06/09
  33.   Durson why should the world respect a terrorist entity 23:33  |  ME 11/06/09
  34.   Durson why should the world respect a terrorist entity 01:42  |  ME 12/06/09
  35.   best wash 03:44  |  d muntean 12/06/09
  36.   muslim?? 04:58  |  Michelle 12/06/09
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