Word: haniyeh
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...organization, but that may not be easy as Olmert would like to believe. Apparently aware of the danger of being isolated, the Hamas government appears to be moving towards accepting a version of the Arab League position of offering recognition of Israel within its 1967 borders. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, in an interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz, effectively offered Israel peace in exchange for a withdrawal to 1967 borders. True, he didn't actually use the term "peace," choosing the convoluted expression of a long-term "automatically renewed" truce instead, but it was the closest Hamas has come...
...Interior Ministry responded by forming its own paramilitary force under the command of veteran militant Jamal Abu Samhadana (whom Israel wants dead). Thus was the stage set for this week's gun battles, which occurred the day after Abbas went to Gaza for meetings with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, in which they sought unsuccessfully to find ways to solve a financial crisis that stands to make 2006 "the worst year in the West Bank and Gaza's dismal recent economic history," according to a newly issued World Bank report...
...Officials on both sides, including Abbas and Haniyeh, have appealed for calm, and as of yet there doesn't seem to be the will on either side for an all-out confrontation. But as each side continues to blame the other for all manner of ills, smaller-scale skirmishes could well become a feature of daily life in Gaza. "The factional fighting is genuine," says Nicholas Pelham, the International Crisis Group's senior Middle East analyst. "It is still at a level where it can be contained but tensions are inflamed" - particularly in Khan Yunis - "to a point where...
...Olmert: They can't just change their rhetoric They need to change their entire way of life, they need to change entirely their state of mind about Israel's existence. It's so much deeper than rhetoric. To just believe that if Ismail Haniyeh tomorrow starts using different words, that will make the difference? No way. This is a typical fundamentalist, extremist religious movement that does not think in political terms the way we're accustomed to. Therefore I'm not very optimistic they can change overnight. They can change their rhetoric but they can't change substance...