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| By Israel Insider staff August 6, 2007 |
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Norwary's foreign minister, Jonas Gar Store, reassured President Shimon Peres today that Norway has severed ties with Hamas, which were established during the Fatah-Hamas unity government.
Peres urged Gar Store to take a "strong line against Hamas," saying that Norway "must be made clear to Hamas that no one in the world will fund terrorism and the firing of rockets on Sderot and adjacent towns."
Peres encouraged Norway's support of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, whose official stance is the recognition of Israel and renunciation of terror. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has recently enacted a series of gestures aimed at bolster Abbas' position.
In an earlier meeting with Gar Store, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni criticized Norway's past revival of diplomatic relations with Hamas, a militant group that has carried out numerous terror attacks against Israelis and calls for the destruction of Israel
"Our treatment of Hamas is not a punishment for the past, but emanates from the group's prevention of any hope for the future," she said.
Norway also had diplomatic relations with Hezbollah, a terrorist group occupying the south of Lebanon that is responsible for the unprovoked kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers last summer. The group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, refuses to reveal whether the soldiers are even alive, boasting that this information comes at an expensive price.
The Norwegian foreign minister said that Norway now deals exclusively with Abbas.
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