Advisor to Haniyeh Tells Haaretz Hamas Prepared to Offer 50-60 year truce if Israel draws to its pre-1967 Borders- Olmert Responds Such Borders are Indefensible... - News from the Middle East - SPME Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

Advisor to Haniyeh Tells Haaretz Hamas Prepared to Offer 50-60 year truce if Israel draws to its pre-1967 Borders- Olmert Responds Such Borders are Indefensible…

Hamas might offer a 50- to 60-year truce if Israel withdraws to its pre-1967 borders, a top Palestinian adviser said.

But Hamas still would not recognize Israel, Ahmed Yusef, a political adviser to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, told Ha’aretz.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made clear that Israel has no intentions to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, which he says are indefensible. Yusef also said suicide bombings do not serve the Hamas government’s interests, despite a call by the terrorist group’s military wing to end a cease-fire because of increasing violence in Gaza.

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