Sunday, December 10, 2006

Hamas escalates threats

From DEBKAfile, December 9, 2006, 11:59 AM (GMT+02:00) ...

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal escalates threats, declares his Palestinian group has embraced strategic option of armed conflict against Israel

Speaking from his Damascus base, Meshaal says the US and Israel must undertake a withdrawal to 1967 boundaries, and accept a Palestinian state with Jerusalem its capital and return of Palestinian refugees.

In Tehran, Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya said Friday: Hamas will never recognize Israel or give up jihad. Iran is the Palestinians’ strategic support. The Islamic Republic’s had transferred $120 m to break the Western and Israeli boycott of his government, he reported.

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