Omar Suleiman & Gilad Sher meeting:"Long term truce with Hamas..."

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Shimon Shiffer in Yedioth Ahronoth reports:

"Egypt supports Israel's position that once negotiations are renewed with the Palestinians, they need to undertake that in a final status arrangement they will declare an end of their demands from Israel," reads a classified report that was recently submitted to officials in Jerusalem.

The report was written by Attorney Gilad Scher in the wake of meetings he held with senior Egyptian intelligence officials, first and foremost Director of Egyptian Intelligence General Omar Suleiman.

The Egyptians say that the negotiations need to be conducted on the basis of the principle of two states for two peoples, and that in the end, Israel will withdraw to the 1967 lines with land swaps adjustments so as to allow for the major settlement blocs to remain under Israeli sovereignty.

On another issue, Suleiman admitted that the efforts to form a Palestinian national unity government have met with failure. He said it was his assessment that Hamas was not prepared to give Fatah any foothold in the Gaza Strip and, on the flip side, that Fatah was not prepared to offer Hamas any partnership in governing the West Bank. The message that Suleiman sought to convey to the leadership in Jerusalem was that he thought it was better for Israel to agree to a long-term truce agreement with the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, noting that Egypt would continue to work to prevent arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip from the Sinai peninsula..."

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