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· Soon after its election, Hamas began to go public with its new position. For example, in May 2006 Haniyeh told Haaretz that the Hamas government would agree to a long-term truce with Israel if it withdrew to the 1967 lines, and a few months later he told an American scholar that "We have no problem with a sovereign Palestinian state over all of our lands within the 1967 borders, living in calm."[11] (emphasis added)
· Perhaps even more important was the May 2006 joint statement of senior Hamas and Fatah members who were imprisoned in Israel. The prestigious "Prisoner's Declaration" went much further than the earlier Hamas overtures: abandoning the previous ambiguities, it called for the establishment of a Palestinian state "in all the lands occupied in 1967," and reserved the use of armed resistance only in those territories.[12] (emphases added)
ZNet - Halbertal & Goldstone, Part 1
· Perhaps even more important was the May 2006 joint statement of senior Hamas and Fatah members who were imprisoned in Israel. The prestigious "Prisoner's Declaration" went much further than the earlier Hamas overtures: abandoning the previous ambiguities, it called for the establishment of a Palestinian state "in all the lands occupied in 1967," and reserved the use of armed resistance only in those territories.[12] (emphases added)
ZNet - Halbertal & Goldstone, Part 1