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the United Nations now to secure the right to live free in the remaining 22 percent of our historic homeland because we have been negotiating with the State of Israel for 20 years without coming any closer to realizing a state of our own. We cannot wait indefinitely while Israel continues to send more settlers to
e shot and wounded by Israeli forces on Sunday as they tried to symbolically exercise their right to return to their families' homes. Minutes after the State of Israel was established on May 14, 1948, the United States granted it recognition. Our Palestinian state, however, remains a promise unfulfilled. Palestin
ike those witnessed on Sunday is never going to allow a political accommodation with Israel and would never be satisfied by one anyway. No wonder Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's prime minister, can say he would be prepared to accept the 1967 borders—but that establishing those borders will never mean an end to the
lmert becomes interim Prime Minister. Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Council elections. Quartet Statement on Palestinian Legislative elections. Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas appointed Prime Minister. Hamas Political Program. Kadima leader Ehud Olmert wins Israeli elections. Palestinian Government led by Hamas sw
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023158 →eemed intractable. Part I begins with the Oslo peace talks, which in 1993 produced the Declaration of Principles (DoP) and the mutual recognition of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. These two agreements formed the basis for
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023162 →dely reported speech to the Israeli Knesset in 2008: “We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.” Olmert, a man with a reputation as a hard-liner, said that meant I
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023518 →s careful calculation is a far cry from al Qaeda's call for constant struggle. Hamas needs no reminder that al Qaeda is more foe than friend. Though Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's leader in Gaza, praised bin Ladin after his death as an "Arab holy warrior," this was largely pandering HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023527 --- PAGE BR
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023528 →Entities connected to both the State of Israel and Ismail Haniyeh

Barack Obama
PERSON
Jerusalem
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Fatah
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Cairo
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Ehud Barak
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Hosni Mubarak
PERSONthe Gaza Strip
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Damascus
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Tehran
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Yemen
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Saddam Hussein
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Hillary Clinton
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Tunisia
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