Haniyeh: Plan implicitly accepting Israel important

Hamas have agreed to a new proposal which recognises the state of Israel under the 1967 borders and is the first plan signed by a senior Hamas official - Sheikh Abdel Halek Natshe of Hebron - that recognizes those borders.

"The Palestinian people, in the homeland and in the diaspora, aspires to liberate its land and realize its self-determination, including the establishment of an independent state on all the land occupied in 1967, and to assure the right of return for refugees and the liberation of all prisoners and detainees," reads the first section of the document.

The implicit recognition of Israel would be a major change for Hamas, which calls for Israel's destruction, but it is unlikely to go far enough to satisfy Israel and Western nations, who cut off funds to the Palestinian government after Hamas won parliamentary elections in January.

This development is to be welcomed by both the US and Israel as positive step forward.

Just watch how it is ignored.

The US/Israeli script works on it's own alternative reality, where they are the good guys and everyone else is a terrorist.

In a month it will come to seem as if Hamas never made this proposal.

Indeed, outside of Israel the plan is receiving almost no press coverage. And that is exactly how the US and Israel would prefer this to play out.

Under US supervision, the Israelis will be allowed to unilaterally establish their own borders without any tiresome need to negotiate with the democratically elected leaders of the Palesinian people.

That's George Bush style "democracy". It sucks.

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