Israel’s foreign minister said Hamas’ election win in the Palestinian Authority had made Mahmoud Abbas irrelevant. Tzipi Livni told Israel Radio on Sunday that, with Hamas in charge of the Palestinian Authority government and refusing to change its hard-line stance against the Jewish state, Abbas “in this regard is not relevant.”
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