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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: December 1, 2005 |
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that Israel would immediately arrest militant Hamas candidates for Palestinian parliament if they tried to go through Israeli military roadblocks.
"If a Hamas member wants to move from place to place, from one checkpoint to another, he will be immediately arrested," Sharon told a meeting of news editors.
Israel objects to Hamas' participation in the Jan. 25 elections so long as the Islamic terrorist group remains armed and committed to Israel's destruction. Hamas wants to replace Israel with an Islamic state.
Sharon said that Israel would not talk with Hamas if the terrorist group were to emerge victorious in the elections. "We do not see them as any type of partner in contacts with Israel," he said.
But he said that Hamas' participation in the election would not sour Israel's relations with the Palestinian Authority.
"I don't see that this can influence in a negative way on their way of dealing with negotiations," he said.
The AP contributed to this report. |
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