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Abbas, Hamas Reach Impasse
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - The incoming Hamas government remains committed to "resistance" against Israel and is not prepared to recognize the Jewish state, Hamas officials said Sunday. Hamas' platform, published on a Palestinian website on Saturday, declared violent resistance, including terror attacks, legitimate tools for the Palestinian people, and said that Hamas would like to learn "more efficient" ways of achieving Palestinian goals, which include the right to return to "every centimeter" of their land. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has warned Hamas that he won't approve its new cabinet unless it recognizes all agreements signed with Israel, sources close to Hamas said. "Abbas said that all the Palestinian ministers must be prepared to hold meetings in the future with Israeli officials," a top Hamas official said. "Abbas has apparently forgotten that Hamas won the parliamentary election."