SaraDinar
02-01-2006, 05:19 PM
Bush: No new state unless Hamas recants
Terrorist group must renounce aim in charter to destroy Israel
Posted: February 1, 2006
There will be no Palestinian state if a Hamas-led government does not renounce its established aim to destroy Israel, President Bush declared today in an interview... but "conditions for peace and the conditions for a settlement will be up to Hamas to make the right decisions."
Bush ... says his administration's position is clear, "Hamas must renounce its desire to destroy Israel, it must recognize Israel's right to exist and it must get rid of the armed wing of its party."
"In order for there to be democracy and in order for there to be two states living side by side with peace, you can't have the party of one state intending to destroy the other state," he told the AP. "And secondly, in order to participate in a democratic society, you can't have an armed wing available to enforce something a party decides to do," Bush added.
The terror group's chief Mahmoud al-Zahar told WorldNetDaily Hamas might soon offer Israel a long-term cease fire but will not recognize the Jewish state's right to exist. Al-Zahar's comments followed a WND exclusive interview in which a top Hamas leader said his group will soon make public a "peace initiative" in which it will offer to trade strategic land with Israel, cease attempts to capture parts of Jerusalem, and sign a 10-year renewable truce with the Jewish state with the aim of later destroying Israel.
"I am not ruling out a long truce period with Israel during which we will hold back armed confrontation as long as the Israeli soldiers respect the truce and do not commit violence against the Palestinian people," said al-Zahar, speaking to WND by cell phone from the Gaza Strip.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48614
Terrorist group must renounce aim in charter to destroy Israel
Posted: February 1, 2006
There will be no Palestinian state if a Hamas-led government does not renounce its established aim to destroy Israel, President Bush declared today in an interview... but "conditions for peace and the conditions for a settlement will be up to Hamas to make the right decisions."
Bush ... says his administration's position is clear, "Hamas must renounce its desire to destroy Israel, it must recognize Israel's right to exist and it must get rid of the armed wing of its party."
"In order for there to be democracy and in order for there to be two states living side by side with peace, you can't have the party of one state intending to destroy the other state," he told the AP. "And secondly, in order to participate in a democratic society, you can't have an armed wing available to enforce something a party decides to do," Bush added.
The terror group's chief Mahmoud al-Zahar told WorldNetDaily Hamas might soon offer Israel a long-term cease fire but will not recognize the Jewish state's right to exist. Al-Zahar's comments followed a WND exclusive interview in which a top Hamas leader said his group will soon make public a "peace initiative" in which it will offer to trade strategic land with Israel, cease attempts to capture parts of Jerusalem, and sign a 10-year renewable truce with the Jewish state with the aim of later destroying Israel.
"I am not ruling out a long truce period with Israel during which we will hold back armed confrontation as long as the Israeli soldiers respect the truce and do not commit violence against the Palestinian people," said al-Zahar, speaking to WND by cell phone from the Gaza Strip.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48614