5-1-2017 In Palestinian Power Struggle, Hamas Eases Talk on Israel – Ian Fisher New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/world/middleeast/hamas-fatah-palestinians-document.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news 

Hamas, the militant group that has long engaged in violent resistance against Israel, sought on Monday to present a more moderate public face as it struggles for control among Palestinians with its main rival, the Palestinian Authority.  A new document of principles — released by Hamas just days before the Palestinian Authority's leader, Mahmoud Abbas, was scheduled to meet President Trump — calls for closer ties to Egypt, waters down the anti-Semitic language that is prominent in its charter and accepts at least a provisional Palestinian state…"We are a pragmatic and civilized movement. We do not hate the Jews. We only fight who occupies our lands and kills our people…."

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