“The Executive Committee does not accept a program that does not recognize the PLO as the sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, does not accept the [Palestinian] Declaration of Independence and does not clearly reject Israeli unilateral policies,” said executive committee member Tayseer Khale. Adnan Asfour, a senior Hamas official from Nablus, said the PLO decision was “unconstitutional” as under Palestinian Basic Law the newly formed government did not require the approval of the PLO. “
Which leads me to ask the very next question of: “How can the gullible West ever believe that the Hamas will recognize Israel, when the Hamas can’t even bring themselves to recognize the PLO?” This is way past being surreal. KGS