Carter: Hamas will accept Israel (and a question)

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Carter doin his thing over there... at least he's doing something. I won't fault him for that. may not last very long but I'll stay optimistic.

Question: I've never read the Art of War so I would like to know what Sun Tzu felt about talking with your enemy.

Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to "live as a neighbour next door in peace".

Speaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, Mr Carter said: "Hamas indicated to us at least - I'm not guaranteeing their commitment - that if Israel is willing to have a mutual ceasefire and a renunciation of violence in Gaza and in the West Bank, they will accept it, and as a first step they would even accept just limiting that to Gaza.

"So I think that what they have said, if they were honest and we wrote it out so there wouldn't be a mistake, it's a very significant development."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7358188.stm