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04/22/2008: "Carter: Hamas will accept Israel"

Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to "live as a neighbour next door in peace".

After meeting Hamas leaders last week in Syria, he criticised the US and Israel for refusing to meet the group.

Hamas had reiterated its position that it could accept an Israeli state within its pre-1967 borders and live in peace with Israel, he said

[ Hamas still will not formally acknowledge Israel, and later in the article it says that Hamas is "dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza" so the headline here is confusing. Both sides should negotiate separate states. ]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7358188.stm