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<p>Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:00| MEMO</p>
<div class="img_caption_news-left null" style="width:250px;"><img class="caption_news-left" title="Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: &quot;We are in favour of dialogue that will lead to a joint strategy regarding Palestine and the nation's fundamental issues,&quot;" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/images/article_images/news/middle-east/ismail-haniyeh-d2.jpg" alt="Gaza government backs Palestinian state but not at cost of recognising Israel or relinquishing historic Palestine" width="250" height="167" border="0" /><em>Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: &#8220;We are in favour of dialogue that will lead to a joint strategy regarding Palestine and the nation&#8217;s fundamental issues,&#8221;</em></p>
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<p>The Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza has said that he and his colleagues back the establishment of a Palestinian state on &#8220;liberated land&#8221;. However, said Ismail Haniyeh, this should not be at the cost of recognising the state of Israel or relinquishing lawful rights over any part of historic Palestine.</p>
<p>Mr Haniyeh told a conference in Gaza that his government is not against a state per se. &#8220;The people have been getting killed for more than 60 years in the cause of liberation,&#8221; he told delegates. &#8220;We say liberation should come first and then the state, because states are not created through UN resolutions or political manoeuvres and compromises, but through steadfastness and resistance.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Palestinian cause, he added, is the cause of a nation and Palestinian officials should not be alone in facing American and Zionist policies: &#8220;We should invest in the revival of the nation to strengthen our position.&#8221;</p>
<p>The solution for the Palestinian cause should be taken away from American and Zionist control and brought back into the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic circles, said the Prime Minister. &#8220;We are in favour of dialogue that will lead to a joint strategy regarding Palestine and the nation&#8217;s fundamental issues,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and which will activate the reconciliation agreement [with Fatah] that we signed.&#8221;</p>
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