re: top Hamas leader calls on Obama to stop 'holocaust' in Gaza

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Bibi and Likud don't recognize Oslo, you know that.

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Netanyahu's opposition to Oslo did not become effective until 2001. Hamas had already rejected Oslo, and was engaged in attacks on Israel. When did Hamas react to the Oslo Accords?

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THE OSLO Accords, which were signed in 1993 between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli government came as a tremendous shock to the Hamas movement, which had been, at the time, escalating its military resistance against Israel.

Since the start of the first Intifada in 1987, Hamas had gained wide support on the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic street as a result of its military operations against the Israeli occupation. Hamas believed that the resistance should continue, that the Intifada had opened the path to liberation and that there was no other option.

The accords undermined this position, and Hamas immediately rejected, absolutely, everything in the agreement. It declared that it would not recognize or respect the Accords and would continue in its military resistance.

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Abbas' Fatah has met all of Bibi's demands, has refrained from attcking Israel, and Bibi still demands to keep permanent control of the Jordan River Valley as part of any final agreement.

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Netanyahu has not demanded permanent Israeli control of the West Bank. He has more than once stated that he could live with a two state solution.