 | | "Yup, that's Israel all right. We'd know those beady Zionist eyes anywhere..." |
(KUNA) -- Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that there were "signs" that Hamas could recognise Israel. Israel "wants Hamas to recognise the two-state solution adopted in the roadmap," Abbas said, referring to the internationally backed plan for Middle East peace. "Hamas refuses to accept this now but maybe it will accept it in the coming days. "There are signs," he told Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel on the sidelines of a forum at the World Heritage site of Petra, south Jordan.
Abbas is set to have an informal encounter with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Thursday at a breakfast hosted by Jordan's King Abdullah II for a group of guests attending the Nobel laureate forum. |