Why should Hamas recognise Israel when Israel doesn't recognise Palestine? In fact Israel is built right on top of Palestine and that, of course, is the crux of the matter.
Nabil Shaath tells Israel Radio that Quartet preconditions calling on Hamas to recognize Israel are 'unworkable and do not make sense', adding all Quartet must know is Hamas would refrain from violence.
An aide to the Western-backed Palestinian president said on Wednesday that international mediators should drop their demand that Gaza's militant Hamas rulers recognize Israel.
Nabil Shaath spoke just hours before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' West Bank Fatah government is to sign a reconciliation deal with Hamas, ending a four-year rift. An interim unity government is to follow. more
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