Islamist group couldn’t accept Cairo proposal because it included acceptance of Israel, says Abu Marzouk, but official ceasefire text makes no such demand
By Elhanan Miller for The Times of Israel
The
Egyptian ceasefire proposal put forward on July 15 included a preamble
calling on Hamas to recognize Israel on the 1967 borders and for the
resumption of peace talks, conditions Hamas could not agree to, the
movement’s deputy political chief claimed.In a largely overlooked Facebook post on Saturday, Cairo-based Moussa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, said that Hamas could not “recognize the legitimacy” of international demands to accept Israel on the 1967 borders, “norms that the resistance refuses to acknowledge.”
“[Hamas] has suffered siege, killing and arrests for its refusal [to recognize Israel]. Had it accepted these conditions following its victory in the 2006 elections it could have entered the White House and received red carpet welcomes in all world capitals,” Abu Marzouk wrote.
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