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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (26301)	1/26/2004 2:15:14 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) of 793670

Could this be because they see the wall is going to be a success? I think so. Hamas proposes 10-year truce for Israeli pullback By Reuters A top Hamas official has said his organization could declare a 10-year truce with Israel if Israel withdraws from territory captured since 1967. Abdel Aziz Rantisi told Reuters late on Sunday that Hamas had come to the conclusion that it was "difficult to liberate all our land at this stage, so we accept a phased liberation." "We accept a state in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. We propose a 10-year truce in return for [Israeli] withdrawal and the establishment of a state," he said in a telephone interview from hiding in the Gaza Strip. His comments appeared to strengthen signs of a big political shift by a faction sworn to destroy Israel and now seeming to move closer to the aims of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Israel dismisses any talk of Hamas moderation as a smokescreen for military preparations by a group at the forefront of suicide bombings. Rantisi told Reuters late on Sunday any such new proposal would not mean that Hamas recognised Israel or spell the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas has led a suicide bombing campaign that has killed hundreds of Israelis during more than three years of violence. It has rejected peace talks and demanded that a Palestinian state be formed on all the land that was Palestine under the British mandate preceding the creation of Israel more than five decades ago. The spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, said recently the group could accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but he gave no indication how long that might ensure peace. Rantisi said the truce could last 10 years, though "not more than 10 years." Rantisi said discussion within Hamas on accepting a state in just the West Bank and Gaza was not new, but that "the movement has taken a decision on this." Rantisi said he did not expect Israel to respond favorably to the new suggestion, "when it has rejected the Palestinian Authority's offer for less land than what we are proposing."

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