Hamas hopes for softer U.S. line on unity deal
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Hamas said on Tuesday it still hoped Washington would soften its position toward a Palestinian unity government despite Israeli statements that the United States and Israel would shun it until it met several conditions.
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Hamas gave Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh its list of nominees for ministerial posts in a national unity cabinet on Saturday, but a source in the Islamist movement declined to reveal the names.
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad reserve judgement on peace with Israel but agree to refrain from violence.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Washington on Saturday to soften objections to his Palestinian unity government with Hamas, telling a top envoy he had cut the best deal he could, aides said.
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The agreement seemed to stop short of meeting the demands of the international community on Hamas.
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Hamas hardened its stance on Saturday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.
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World powers have largely abandoned hope that Hamas radicals will drop anti-Israel positions that have riven the Palestinian leadership and led to a cutoff of direct international aid. Now diplomats are looking for a new approach.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The rival Hamas and Fatah parties froze talks yesterday on forming a Palestinian unity government, Fatah officials said. This was a new setback in efforts to form a more moderate coalition acceptable to the West.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The ruling Hamas movement   and President Mahmoud Abbas's office accused each other on   Sunday of trying to derail a planned Palestinian unity   government that officials hope will lift Western sanctions.
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas faces the task of forming a new Palestinian government with the moderate Fatah, despite unresolved internal disputes and the warning of a U.S. boycott.
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Hamas leader Khalid Mishaal has said Palestinian factions will only agree on a united political programme after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas vowed to avenge the killing of a leader in its armed wing on Tuesday in Gaza in renewed violence that erupted as talks over a Palestinian unity government bogged down in disagreement over a cabinet post.
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Israel and the US react with caution to an agreement by Fatah and Hamas to form a national unity government.
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Palestinian group Hamas is sending some &quot;not unhelpful&quot; signals about the Middle East peace process, Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview broadcast Friday.
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Hamas on Saturday rejected demands by PLO leaders that its government resign over the failure to form a moderate coalition acceptable to the West &#151; a sign of an intensifying power struggle between Islamic militants and moderate President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas ruled out any truce with Israel Sunday and repeated its desire to destroy the Jewish state, rejecting what had appeared to be more conciliatory comments by one of the Islamic militant group&#39;s leaders.
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The man widely believed to be leading the new Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said Wednesday that his group wants to maintain calm in the area, but will not be the "protector" of the Israeli border.