A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    they accepted a two-state solution previously, the isreali PM that was negotiating with them at the time was assassinated.

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      2 months ago

      Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli law student who didn’t believe in the peace talks. Hamas didn’t even kill him, Israel did it. No fucking surprise there.