(AP/Houston Chronicle) A suspension of attacks on Israel would not induce the Bush administration to abandon its boycott of Hamas. "It doesn't seem to me you can push the pause button on terror," David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for the Near East, said Thursday. If Hamas accepts Israel's right to exist, "perhaps there will be a different situation," he said. "The burden here is on Hamas to take a decision," Welch said. "It is not on the United States, it is not on the Europeans, it is not on Israel," Welch said.
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