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Mahmoud Abbas Pushes for Two-State Referendum

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinians, is pushing for a referendum to put forth to the Palestinian people which will once and for all call for peace and recognition of the Israel. Since the election of Hamas -a movement that calls for violence and the distruction of Israel -to the central Palestinian government several months ago, tensions have been growing between the Fatah party and Hamas.

Hamas has been responsible for hundreds of acts of terrorism in Israel and holds extremist ideas and calls for the destruction of Israel. They refuse to acknowledge Israel`s rght to exist and are not in support of a referendum being put forth to the Palestinian people.

A spokesman for the terrorist group Hamas told reporters in Gaza that the group is not in favor of the referendum: "The approach is to treat this document as a sacred document, and that is something we don`t accept. We are against the referendum. We are not going to accept it, and we reject this referendum."