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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070450.html
Clinton: U.S. Gaza Aid Tied to Recognition of Israel
[Ha'aretz] Barak Ravid - Some $900 million pledged by the U.S. to the Palestinians will be withdrawn if the expected PA coalition government between Fatah and Hamas does not recognize Israel's right to exist, Western and Israeli diplomats said Wednesday. Last week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned PA leader Mahmoud Abbas that Congress will not approve funding of a Palestinian government that does not recognize Israel's right to exist and renounce violence. She added that if those requirements are not met, the U.S.-funded program to train PA security forces would be the first to be axed. The Obama administration is adamant in maintaining the previous U.S. administration's position of boycotting Hamas.