Following President Obama’s phone call to Prime Minister Netanyahu a few hours back, in which he offered US help in negotiating a cease-fire, AP is quoting a senior administration official who makes clear that the US still considers Hamas a terrorist organization and it won’t have direct contact with its leaders.
Instead, the official says, other players in the Mideast could act as intermediaries, as was the case when Egypt and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton worked to secure the November 2012 cease-fire. Egypt, Turkey or Qatar are all possibilities, says the official, AP reports.
Trouble is, Egypt has other preoccupations and little time for Hamas; Turkish-Israel ties are in a deep freeze; and Israel would hardly trust Qatar as a mediator.
— AP, Times of Israel staff
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