A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

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Did they not take away the Palestinian right to elections back in 2006?

Which is why I asked about elections and opposition parties.

If you want to argue that Hamas has liberalized in the last 19 years,

No.

or even the last 6 months,

No.

but I am growing bored of the rhetoric I am currently being given.

You are being given no rhetoric. I was asking a question.

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