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Under military pressure, a top Hamas official suggests recognizing Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk suggests that the Palestinian terror group could recognize Israel for the first time as a step toward Palestinian unity, potentially indicating the pressure it is currently under amid Israel’s military campaign to oust it from the Gaza Strip.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's an odd thing to do considering one of the reasons it's speculated they launched the Oct 7 attack was because Saudi Arabia was about to recognize them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Iirc the deal they had with israel was that they would not kill hamas leaders in qatar. I imagine that now they have reasons to be afraid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Interesting, so they're cool with massive retaliatory deaths until its their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Update: It appears he changed his mind and is trying to walk back his earlier statement.