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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    7 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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      7 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.

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        7 months ago

        Hamas was also not in power back then, in no position to accept or reject any solution.

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

      That was Fatah, not Hamas. Hamas was irrelevant back in the 90s and didn’t rise to prominence until the mid-2000s.

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      Better check that history video again. It wasn’t Hamas at that table