Hamas-led govt 'may be considered terrorist state'
Israel’s foreign minister today said a Hamas-led Palestinian government could be designated a terrorist state, subject to sanctions, if it does not renounce terrorism and recognise Israel.
“When an entity, a state is being led by terrorists, the meaning is that this entity, this authority, this state is going to transfer into a terror state,” Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at a news conference with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
She said the international community has its “own sanctions and measures when it comes to an entity which transfers into a terror entity.”
Rice was asked by a reporter about comments from Israel’s acting prime minister, Ehud Olmert, that Israel will retain its main West Bank settlement blocs and all of Jerusalem when its permanent borders are drawn, but will give up parts of the West Bank where most Palestinians live
Rice said the US position hasn’t changed that “No one should try and unilaterally predetermine the outcome of a final status agreement.”
