Word: haniyeh
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...Prime Minister, his cabinet, and senior military officials reportedly mapped out several possible military actions, including air strikes against militant targets, assassinations of Hamas political leaders - up to and including Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh - and the reoccupation of Gaza. While troops and tanks are massed at the edge of territory, however, the plans are on hold while intermediaries, including Palestinian and Egyptian officials, try to negotiate the release of Cpl. Shalit...
What's the stance of the Hamas-run Palestinian government? It's unclear. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called the beach attack a "war crime," but did not endorse ending the cease-fire. That suggests at least a modicum of division within Hamas...
...that Hamas necessarily rejects the proposal, which is contained in a a document drawn up by prisoners from its own faction as well as Abbas's Fatah movement currently doing time in Israeli jails. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has already offered Israel peace in the form of a "long-term truce" if it withdraws to its 1967 borders, and Hamas is in fact in discussions with Fatah over that very issue. But Hamas, not surprisingly, is unwilling to accept Abbas's ultimatum. "I am not prepared to act with a gun to my head," Haniyeh said Monday...
...ISMAIL HANIYEH, Palestinian Prime Minister, urging restraint in a power struggle between his Hamas party and the rival Fatah bloc of President Mahmoud Abbas--who said he would call a referendum on a proposal for peace with Israel if Hamas, which refuses to recognize the Jewish state, does not accept the plan within 10 days...
...Even before Abbas's challenge, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and some other Hamas leaders have been steadily moving toward some form of recognition of Israel within its 1967 borders, in line with the Arab League offer of peace in exchange for a return to those borders. "If Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, peace will prevail," Haniyeh told the Israeli daily Haaretz earlier this week, offering a "long term cease-fire...