Hamas taking hard line over peace negotiations
September 2, 2010
Attacks on settlers will continue unless the rulers of Gaza can be accommodated, writes MICHAEL JANSEN� BY RESPONDING with violence to the resumption of Fatah-Israeli negotiations, Hamas, ruler of Gaza, is demonstrating that there can be no peace between the Palestinians and Israel unless Hamas is involved. Hamas’s military wing has so far staged two drive-by shootings in the West Bank, killing four settlers near the contested city of Hebron and wounding two near the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority’s administrative centre of Ramallah. Mahmoud Zahar, a leading Hamas figure in Gaza, said attacks and targeting of settlers would continue in the West Bank. The fact…
