[Jerusalem Post] Khaled Abu Toameh - Former Fatah security commander Muhammad Dahlan, in an interview on the PA's Palestine TV on Tuesday, called on Hamas not to recognize Israel's right to exist, pointing out that Fatah had never recognized it. Dahlan was recently appointed as a special adviser to PA leader Mahmoud Abbas. "For the one thousandth time, I want to reaffirm that we are not asking Hamas to recognize Israel's right to exist. Rather, we are asking Hamas not to do so because Fatah never recognized Israel's right to exist," Dahlan said. "We acknowledge that the PLO did recognize Israel's right to exist, but we [in Fatah] are not bound by it." Dahlan also boasted that "the Palestinian Authority under [Arafat] targeted collaborators [with Israel] ten times more than Hamas."
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