A Hamas leader’s acknowledgment of Israel’s existence means little, the U.S. State Department said. Khaled Meshaal, exiled leader of the terrorist group that governs the Palestinian Authority, told Reuters on Wednesday that “Israel is a reality” but said he would not recognize it until there was a Palestinian state.
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