A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

  • @Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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    6124 days ago

    Assassinated by hard line Israelis who refuse to accept any type of two states solution. I have always wondered if we would have seen a true two state solution if Yitzhak Rabin hadn’t been shot. I think it probably would have happened.

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      623 days ago

      After reading his biography I fully believe that he could have created Middle East peace he could have been so fucking great he was a good man

      • @Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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        823 days ago

        The crazy thing is he wasn’t some flower in the hair, love and peace is all we need kind of guy. he was part of the IDF and fought in several of the early conflicts. Then once he entered politics he was the defense minister for 10 years. He had the makings of any hardliner. But he was a guy that believed that peace was the only way forward for a conflict. A soldier who knew war and knew peace was the better choice.

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          223 days ago

          Yeah that’s the best part about it… I firmly believe he was the last chance