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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Hamas ready to put peace deal to vote

Press TV- The Islamic resistance movement of Hamas says it will accept a peace deal with Israel if the Palestinian nation approves any such accord in a referendum.

Palestinian democratically elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Wednesday Israel has no intention of giving the Palestinians a fully sovereign state and that peace with Israel was "impossible."

However, he stressed that if the Palestinian nation supports a future peace treaty with Israel, their decision will be honored and followed even if it is in conflict with the movement's "ideology and principles."

Haniyeh said the resistance movement will accept a peace deal with Israel only if the long-sought demands of the group are met.

"We accept a Palestinian state with full sovereignty on the land occupied in 1967 with al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital, the release of Palestinian prisoners, and a solution to the issue of refugees," Haniyeh told a press conference with foreign journalists in the Gaza Strip. Read more
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