Israel threatens to cut ties with Abbas

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Source: The Jerusalem Post
February 11, 2007

Israeli government officials on Sunday threatened to cut ties with so-called "moderate" Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas if he forges a unity government with Hamas that is not based on explicit recognition of Israel's right to exist.

Hamas and Abbas' Fatah came to an agreement last week on a power-sharing government, but the deal failed to satisfy international demands that any Palestinian government recognize the Jewish state and renounce terrorist violence against it.

Hamas officials confirmed at the weekend that the new government would indeed spurn those requirements.

Israeli opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu told Army Radio that Israel must respond to Abbas moving closer to Hamas by moving further away from him. Anything else would risk legitimizing the bloody Islamic terrorist organizaiton, warned Netanyahu.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, meanwhile, told the cabinet that he had yet to accept or reject the Hamas-Fatah deal signed in Mecca last Thursday.

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