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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Cairo last week. (Reuters)
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Mubarak: Hamas will never sign a peace agreement with Israel
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak expressed great concern over the increasing strength of Hamas in talks with senior diplomatic officials on Wednesday, declaring that the organization will never sign a peace agreement with Israel, Haaretz has learned.

He said that the Egyptian government is at a loss regarding the future of the Gaza Strip. However, he also proclaimed that Egypt is making great efforts to end the Hamas government and support Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

"With Hamas no way," he reportedly said.
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Mubarak painted a dark picture of the situation with Hamas and said there was no chance for peace with the organization. "Hamas will never sign a peace agreement with Israel if it stays in power," the Egyptian president said.

Mubarak also said that Egypt did not accept Hamas in power, especially in light of its growing ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, which leads the opposition in Egypt. Mubarak sees the Brotherhood, which gained considerable power in Egypt's last parliamentary elections, as a threat to secular power.

Egypt has begun barring senior Hamas leaders from entering Egypt due to concerns over their contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Since Hamas rose to power and in view of the continuing strife between Hamas and Fatah, Egypt has been working through its security delegation in Gaza to reach a cease-fire among the factions. At the same time, Egypt has continuously held talks with Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Islamic Army over the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
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  1.   If true, what took him so long? 01:39  |  McQueen 17/05/07
  2.   He nourished it,now perhaps he`d end like the Shah of Iran 01:39  |  Absolute Sweden 17/05/07
  3.   Interesting statement 02:02  |  Chris Linthwaite 17/05/07
  4.   Mubarak: the laughing cow 02:45  |  Paulo 17/05/07
  5.   Mubarak not as naive as Israeli leftists 03:14  |  Voice of Reason 17/05/07
  6.   Growing ties with Brotherhood? Hamas IS the Brotherhood 03:32  |  Yitzhak 17/05/07
  7.   Let`s hope he explained... 03:56  |  Blogowitz 17/05/07
  8.   Mubarak confirmed what I have been saying for years: Hamas IS MB 03:56  |  Musa El yahudi 17/05/07
  9.   Sooner or later, Israel will have to deal with Hamas 04:06  |  Joe 17/05/07
  10.   Pro Western Arab nations have to realize 04:08  |  Shepherd 17/05/07
  11.   Solution= Wall on Westbank&deep,wide Water Moat round Gaza 04:09  |  Alan SA 17/05/07
  12.   Hamas dont pass into Egypt by land/air/sea-only by tunnels 04:12  |  Alan SA 17/05/07
  13.   "Haaretz has learned!" oh no not again. 04:18  |  Sarah Gotlieb 17/05/07
  14.   another undemocratically elected leader spewing garbage 04:25  |  thetruth 17/05/07
  15.   Mubarak, You Are Wrong - Just Ask Haaretz 04:29  |  Tod Zuckerman 17/05/07
  16.   CHRIS LINTHWAITE 04:32  |  Brant 17/05/07
  17.   #4 Spoken like a true Islamic jihadist 04:36  |  Lynn 17/05/07
  18.   So this means Hamas isn`t moderating? 05:05  |  Gina 17/05/07
  19.   Mubarak has long been known to be a dictatorial guy 05:21  |  lakshmi 17/05/07
  20.   5.Voice of reason or Voice of America 05:34  |  Alan 17/05/07
  21.   It`s very doubtful whether mubarak is the man to forge any 05:38  |  Mark 17/05/07
  22.   Just get rid of Israeli regime & Israel forever 05:43  |  John Mohony 17/05/07
  23.   HA! Mubarak looked the other way as The Sinai was Hamas` Depot 06:05  |  Dr. Dave 17/05/07
  24.   More baloney 06:36  |  Joe Stein 17/05/07
  25.   #23 Irish Imposter 06:48  |  GenerX 17/05/07
  26.   Mubarak call it more clearly than Olmert... 06:57  |  diamond 17/05/07
  27.   3 points 07:06  |  AK 17/05/07
  28.   Alan, #20, I hope it is nice for you to live in a state of denial 07:12  |  Voice of Reason 17/05/07
  29.   Israelis are Fascinating 07:14  |  Bernie 17/05/07
  30.   HE IS AFRAID ABOUT HIS OWN PROSPECT 07:42  |  indrajaya 17/05/07
  31.   HE IS AFRAID ABOUT HIS OWN PROSPECT 07:43  |  indrajaya 17/05/07
  32.   Moderating ... What does that Mean? 08:04  |  Bernie 17/05/07
  33.   Recognize the Nakba 08:12  |  Bernie 17/05/07
  34.   A common enemy ! Stop the arms smuggling ! 08:15  |  redmike 17/05/07
  35.   # 27 AK, Well said, True and nothing more or less 08:17  |  Abu Samra 17/05/07
  36.   #22 - you are obviously a very unhappy person ! 08:20  |  redmike 17/05/07
  37.   john mohoney 08:47  |  ronda 17/05/07
  38.   Mubarak is probably... 08:52  |  Maureen Ann 17/05/07
  39.   Mubarak 09:10  |  Michael 17/05/07
  40.   Phony Mohony 09:15  |  Brian Olson 17/05/07
  41.   terrorists can be elected 09:34  |  Gene Warech 17/05/07
  42.   Lets Admit it - OSLO WAS WRONG !!! 09:49  |  Dr Alon 17/05/07
  43.   # 9 Joe : who helped create Hamas ? 09:58  |  christa 17/05/07
  44.   Mubarak is right wing zionist on Mossad payroll 10:03  |  CLICKMORON 17/05/07
  45.   Nothing new here 10:03  |  Adrian de Klerk 17/05/07
  46.   Bad news for Israel 10:07  |  christa 17/05/07
  47.   #27, Khalid 10:07  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 17/05/07
  48.   To 38 and 22. 10:18  |  David Nigel Braham 17/05/07
  49.   38Maureen Ann,it`s been known for a long time that 10:21  |  sara 17/05/07
  50.   A militray dictator and a democratically elected government 10:24  |  Clickfool 17/05/07
  51.   Mubarak sees the future 10:34  |  Clickfool 17/05/07
  52.   EGYPT, REOCCUPY GAZA NOW 10:39  |  Mohamed 17/05/07
  53.   Do You blame Hamas ? they are under occupation 10:43  |  Nina 17/05/07
  54.   Maureen Ann,AK,Clickfool and other islamist apologists 10:55  |  Daniel Leopold 17/05/07
  55.   LONG LIVE THE KIBUSH!!!! 11:03  |  DR ALON 17/05/07
  56.   Mubarak is a dictator 11:13  |  raymond deane 17/05/07
  57.   Muslim Brotherhood as Arab constituante 11:13  |  Fritz 17/05/07
  58.   Can you, President Mubarak?? 11:15  |  isratinian 17/05/07
  59.   Thank you Mr. Arafat, Mr.Shamir, Mr.Sharon, Mr.Nethanyau...... 11:16  |  Swiss (Dino) 17/05/07
  60.   No wonder why Egypt is more developed than it`s neighbours 11:20  |  ScotGuy 17/05/07
  61.   Destroy Hamas! 11:31  |  ATLAS 17/05/07
  62.   "AK "Just one point..Which part of NEVER can`t You understand? 11:32  |  PETER SM 17/05/07
  63.   Nina - I blame Hamas for choosing to shoot up Palestinan civilans 11:40  |  Gina 17/05/07
  64.   Mubarak 11:49  |  Ralph 17/05/07
  65.   CASUS BELLI 11:50  |  Herman 17/05/07
  66.   To Swiss Dino 11:52  |  Ralph 17/05/07
  67.   A SLAMDUNK 11:54  |  indrajaya 17/05/07
  68.   Cluck Fool 11:56  |  Star of David 17/05/07
  69.   #59 Swiss (Dino) 11:57  |  JonathanInTelAviv 17/05/07
  70.   John Moroney 12:09  |  george 17/05/07
  71.   SWISS DINO 12:35  |  Brant 17/05/07
  72.   what did 30 yrs. of peace with zionism bring to Egypt? 12:35  |  arab 17/05/07
  73.   NINA #53 12:37  |  Brant 17/05/07
  74.   What is this Mubarak? 12:37  |  Sam 17/05/07
  75.   what did Egypt`s peace bring-continued 12:38  |  arab 17/05/07
  76.   Mubarak.... 12:43  |  k.herzallah 17/05/07
  77.   ARAB 71 12:50  |  Brant 17/05/07
  78.   Johnathan of Tel Aviv 13:14  |  No kidding 17/05/07
  79.   For Star of David # 68 13:28  |  Clickfool 17/05/07
  80.   Mubarak is the One Who Armed HAMAS ! 13:29  |  Ben Israel 17/05/07
  81.   This article back-fired. 14:04  |  Sailor 17/05/07
  82.   To Clicking Fool 14:25  |  Chris