"Israel Will Never Make Peace With Hamas"

Interview, the great usurper, 'cannot accept' to negotiate with the victims ...  with FOX/ here

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel would never make peace with Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, a stand that could undermine peace negotiations in the region.

In an interview with FOX News, Netanyahu said Gaza can't be part of a peace deal while Hamas in control.

"We can work with the Palestinian Authority headed by Abbas," he said, referring to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "We cannot accept Hamas as a negotiating partner." "I categorically say you can't make peace with somebody who wants to destroy you, and Hamas wants to destroy us," he said. "What would we negotiate with them about? The method of our destruction?".......

In a sign that he is open to negotiations on the more contentious issues, Netanyahu suggested Israel is ready to make gestures on a temporary freeze on West Bank settlements outside of Jerusalem.

"But at the same time, we have to allow for the possibility of normal life for the people who are living in those communities, in those settlements," he said. "There's a quarter of a million people there," he added. "They need kindergartens and schools. They need health clinics and I think what we're trying to balance necessities of normal life with our intention and our desire to re-launch the peace process."

Netanyahu said he believes the issue of settlements will come at the end of negotiations.

"But we certainly can't decide that before we negotiate," he said.

Despite Netanyahu's public support for talks without precondition, some experts believe the Israeli leader's not likely to concede much with Abbas still blocked from Gaza by Hamas' rule. "If you don't have a Palestinian leadership that can deliver, it's no time to be offering up one Israeli concession after another," said Jon Alterman, a senior fellow and director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...."