While Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to hold direct talks with Israel, he is scheduled to meet with the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hamas, Agence France Presse last Tuesday. "A joint meeting of Hamas and Fatah has been arranged for October 20 in Damascus after a previous meeting between us which had a measure of success," said a senior Hamas official. In 2007, Hamas violently overthrew Abbas' Fatah faction in the Gaza Strip and has imposed strict Islamic law over the coastal strip since taking power. Hamas' charter calls for the elimination of Israel and says that peace talks with the Jewish state a "waste of time." The terrorist group has launched thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians in recent years. On August 31, Hamas murdered of four Israeli civilians.
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