(AFP) Steve Weizman - Shortly before leaving for visits to Britain and France this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "The agreement between Abu Mazen (Abbas) and Hamas deals a hard blow to the peace process....How can we make peace with a government when half of it calls for the destruction of Israel and glorifies the murderous Osama bin Laden?" Netanyahu is seeking to head off European support for a Palestinian bid to win UN recognition for a state within the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital, in a move expected to take place at September's annual General Assembly.
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