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Source: http://www.voanews.com/a/official-denies-hamas-softened-stance-israel/3846730.html
Hamas Official Denies Softened Stance toward Israel
(Reuters-VOA News) Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said Wednesday that a document published by the Islamist Palestinian group last week was not a substitute for its founding charter, which advocates Israel's destruction. "The pledge Hamas made before God was to liberate all of Palestine," Zahar said. "The charter is the core of [Hamas'] position." "When people say that Hamas has accepted the 1967 borders, like others, it is an offense to us," he said. "We have reaffirmed the unchanging, constant principles that we do not recognize Israel; we do not recognize the land occupied in 1948 as belonging to Israel; and we do not recognize that the people who came here [Jews] own this land."