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Olmert: ‘Hamas, Just Like Ahmadinejad, Wants to Destroy Us’

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“Hamas does not want to recognize us and certainly doesn’t want to make peace with us. Just like Ahmadinejad in Iran, it wants to destroy us,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a speech he delivered at a Jewish Agency rally in Jerusalem on Monday morning, hours prior to his departure for the four-way summit at Sharm e-Sheikh.

At the summit, Olmert is set to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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“We want thousands of rifles, hundreds of armored vehicles and a lot of ammunition,” one PA official told The Jerusalem Post. “We also want Jordan and Egypt to help train our forces in the West Bank.”

Another official said that Abbas and his aides would ask Israel to release senior Fatah operative Marwan Barghouti and hundreds of Fatah prisoners to enhance Fatah’s status. “We will also ask Israel to remove most of the checkpoints in the West Bank and to increase the number of Palestinians who are permitted to work in Israel,” he said.