Erekat reasserts that Hamas is a legitimate Palestinian national movement http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/2165-erekat-reasserts-that-hamas-is-a-legitimate-palestinian-national-movement

The ex-Chief Negotiator of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation has rejected the Israeli Prime Minister's demand for the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah to choose between Israel or Hamas. Dr. Saeb Erekat said that such a choice is rejected and it is "completely unacceptable" for Benjamin Netanyahu to call for it. "There is no scope for comparison between Israel and the Palestinian movement of Hamas," he asserted. "Israel is an occupying power and we hope to establish peace with it by ending the occupation; the state terrorism it practices; the policies of assassination and detention, and settlement construction on our occupied land."