Khaled Meshaal has given an interview to the NYT.
I'm on the record saying Israel should talk to Hamas, if they can find anything to talk about. Moreover, if Hamas ceases to be Hamas and is willing to make peace with Israel on terms Israel can live with, great. I'm all for it. The positions in this interview don't sound like them, however:
He repeated that he would not recognize Israel, saying to fellow Arableaders, “There is only one enemy in the region, and that is Israel.”
But he urged outsiders to ignore the Hamas charter, which calls for theobliteration of Israel through jihad and cites as fact the infamous anti-Semiticforgery, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Mr. Meshal did not offer to revoke thecharter, but said it was 20 years old, adding, “We are shaped by ourexperiences.” On the two-state solution sought by the Americans, he said:“We are with a state on the 1967 borders, based on a long-term truce. Thisincludes East Jerusalem, the dismantling of settlements and the right of returnof the Palestinian refugees.” Asked what “long-term” meant, he said 10years.
Regular readers will be able to read his codes without my help.
taken from: Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations (http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/)
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