London: Israeli-HAMAS Secret Talks According to AFP and Israeli TV, Israel had held secret talks with HAMAS in London on Sunday.
Meeting was arranged by the British Intelligence Service. Israelis, Messrs Yair Hirschfeld, Oslo-93 accord negotiation participant, and former Br.-Gen. Shlomo Brom had met HAMAS delegation, an adviser to the PA premier-minister, Mr Ahmed Yussef, a member of. During a meeting, Israelis called FATH "a party of the past" and highlighted necessity to negotiate with HAMAS. Insurgents called on Israel to include in a negotiating team more agreeable politicians, for instance, former justice minister, Mr. Yossi Beilin is. Also, HAMAS has rejected an acceptance of the State of Israel and offered twenty-thirty year truce instead. An acceptance of Israel has been an Israeli prerequisite for negotiations along with acceptance of existing Israeli-Palestinian agreements and ceasing the insurgency activities. Meanwhile, on Saturday, an Israeli foreign minister, Mrs. Ts.Livni, had cancelled her visit to Quatar because of HAMAS participating at the international conference. It was attended by an Israeli delegation headed by a Middle East Israel Foreign Ministry Bureau deputy manager, Mr. Yaacov Hadas. (No-official translation) http://lenta.ru/news/2006/10/30/hamas/ <http://lenta.ru/news/2006/10/30/hamas/> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/