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‘Last time we listened to the US, Hamas took Gaza’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMK Ze’ev Elkin, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, rejects the Obama administration’s calls for an immediate ceasefire, recalling Palestinian elections in 2006.
“The international pressure has begun,” Elkin tells Ynet. “When we once listened to the Americans and allowed Hamas to participate in elections, Hamas took over Gaza and we received a terrorist entity. Hamas is a terrorist organization just like Al-Qaeda, so there is no reason to talk about negotiations.”
“The fact that Hamas is firing means that it is still not deterred, and did not reach a real breaking point,” he says.
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