Statement on Hamas Election Victory
(January 30, 2006)
A. The State of Israel upholds the Roadmap and continues to demand that PA Chairman Abbas carry out the commitment to dismantle all terrorist organizations and their infrastructures.
B. The State of Israel will not conduct
any negotiations with any Palestinian administration
even part of which is composed of an armed terrorist
organization that calls for the destruction of the State
of Israel. Israel will continue to act against the terrorist
organizations wherever necessary.
C. The State of Israel will work with
the international community so that no dialogue is conducted
with Hamas or with the PA before it and its chairman fulfill the
following terms:
i. The terrorist organizations are
disarmed and the path of terrorism is abandoned;
ii. The existence of the State of Israel
is recognized and the Hamas
Covenant, which calls for Israel's destruction,
is annulled;
iii. All agreements and understandings
that were signed and entered into between Israel and
the PA are recognized.
Sources: Prime
Minister's Office |