I'm also going to point out one more time that Hamas has said that they are willing to recognize Israel's right to exist if Israel will recognize Palestine's right to exist. Well there's the whopper of the year. Israel has long been in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. Successive Israeli and Palestinian leaders have long been meeting at the highest levels to achieve that. A two-state solution has long been the policy of all Israeli governments going back many years. What Israel does not recognize is Hamas, a terrorist organization that is also not recognized by the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France, the E.U., etc. Most Arab governments -- Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. also do not recognize Hamas. Hamas' stated goals -- you can find their charter online -- is to destroy Israel and to impose strict Islamic law on every man, woman and child.
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