Senior Hamas figure, Osama Hamdan, who this May told a TV interviewer,[ http://justjournalism.com/the-wire/hamas-in-gaza-‘armed-confrontation-will-be-backbone-of-the-resistance’]/of the approach that the newly reconciled Fatah and Hamas groups would take towards Israel:
…Yes, it will be an armed confrontation, as well as all other forms of struggle, including civil Intifdada against the occupation, against the wall, and against the Judaization of Jerusalem.
There is no doubt, however, that the armed confrontation will continue to be the main effort and the backbone of the resistance, until the liberation of Palestine.
…I think that politically, the two-state solution is over. The people who suggested this notion are the ones who say so. Therefore, trying to talk about a two-state solution again is like talking about something that is over and done with.
…we are entering the phase of the liberation of Palestine. When we talk about the liberation of Palestine, we are talking about the notion of Return: the return of the refugees to their homeland, and the return of the Israelis to the countries from which they came.
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