(VOA News) David Gollust - The Bush administration said Wednesday the Hamas-led Palestinian government has only itself to blame for the financial crisis it finds itself in, following charges from Hamas that the U.S. is disrupting the delivery of aid to the PA. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said, "The difficulties that the Palestinian Hamas-led government might be experiencing now are wholly of their own making....The Palestinian people need to understand that it is, at this moment, the Hamas-led government that is the single biggest obstacle to their realizing a two-state solution. They are the ones who are standing in the way of that, nobody else." The Hamas-led PA administration spurned a call from the international Middle East "Quartet" that it accept Israel's right to exist, renounce terrorism, and accept previous Palestinian commitments, including endorsement of the Quartet's 2003 road map to peace.
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