The Hamas chief threatened a new round of Palestinian violence by mid-2007. Khaled Meshaal, who was in Cairo over the weekend for talks on the fate of an Israeli soldier held hostage in the Gaza Strip, urged the West to engage Palestinians in statehood talks.
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