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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5122822.stm
Hamas: No Recognition of Israel
(BBC News) Fatah and Hamas have reached agreement on a document outlining a common political strategy. However, Hamas negotiators have denied reports that the deal meant the militants would implicitly recognize Israel. Palestinian minister Abdel Rahman Zeidan said the Hamas-Fatah document did not in any way recognize the State of Israel. "You will not find one word in the document clearly stating the recognition of Israel as a state. Nobody has agreed to this," he said. Hamas negotiators told the BBC they believe that a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza is a first step - not a final step. They believe that future generations of Palestinians will reclaim all their historic homeland. And that, in the end, there will be no room for what is now the Jewish State of Israel.