Hamas threatens fresh uprising if peace talks fail
Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal said today his group was willing to give peace negotiations six months to reach an agreement for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, but threatened a new uprising if talks fail.
Mashaal was meeting in Cairo with Egyptian officials who have been acting as intermediaries on the crisis over Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit and the formation of a Palestinian unity government by Hamas and its rival Fatah party.
“We give six months to open real political horizons ... we agreed on the national accord to establish a Palestinian state, with the June 4, 1967 borders,” he said. “They have to seize this opportunity.
He warned that if an agreement is not reached within that time, “Hamas will become stronger and the resistance will resume ... and will go on with a third uprising.”
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