How has Hamas responded to the U.S. three conditions?
Hamas political chief Khaled Mashal said as early as March 2006 that Hamas would be willing to “end its armed conflict with Israel” in exchange for a full withdrawal to the 1967 borders, implying its willingness to accept the conditions in exchange for an end of Israel’s military occupation. Mashal reiterated his stance regarding acceptance of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders in a March 2008 interview on the Al Jazeera English television network, and a month later agreed during a meeting with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Damascus that Hamas would accept a negotiated settlement between the Palestinian Authority and Israel leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, provided that Palestinians approve the deal in a vote. 4. Do the parties likely to form the next Israeli government accept the three conditions that the U.S. has demanded of Hamas? No. The charters of Likud, the party of presumptive Prime Minister Benjamin Net
