[Ynet News] Yitzhak Benhorin - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rejected reports that the Obama administration will agree to transfer funds to a Palestinian government that includes Hamas members. "There is no possibility of funding Hamas," Clinton told the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday. "What we have said is that if there were to be, which at this moment seems highly unlikely, a unity government that consisted of the Palestinian Authority members from Fatah and any members from Hamas, the government itself plus every member of the government would have to commit to the Quartet principles," Clinton added. "Namely, they must renounce violence, they must recognize Israel and they must agree to abide by the former PLO and Palestinian Authority agreements." "That has been our policy, and that is what we have told our partners in Europe and elsewhere, which is why we've been very hesitant and quite unconvinced about any efforts to create a unity government," she said.
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