2-May-2017: Hamas softens it's stand and accepts pre-1967 border
Hamas, the Islamist movement, which runs the Gaza Strip, has unveiled a new policy document ahead of a first face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, whose Fatah party remains at loggerheads with Hamas.
The document accepts for the first time pre-1967 armistice lines as a matter of “national consensus” — in what many interpreted as implicitly accepting the existence of Israel. Some analysts see the move as an attempt by Hamas to ease tension with regional allies and assuage hostilities with global powers.