Hamas accepts Israel with 1967 borders

?We welcome any push for achieving this dream if there is a real plan for resolving the Palestinian issue,? Haniyeh said in a news conference with visiting former US President Jimmy Carter here. Haniyeh also praised US President Barack Obama?s June 4 address in Cairo to the Muslim world. ?We saw a new tone, a new language and a new spirit in the official US rhetoric,? he said. Earlier, Carter denounced the Israeli blockade and the destruction wrought by its 22-day war on Gaza in December and January. ?My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger when I see the destruction perpetrated against innocent people,? Carter said as he toured the impoverished territory. Meanwhile, two Israeli human rights groups said yesterday that Israel is making it near-impossible for Gaza residents to move to the West Bank, even in humanitarian cases. ?The procedure constitutes an escalation in Israel?s policy of separation between Gaza and the West Bank, undermining the prospect of a viable Palestinian state,? said Joel Greenberg of the Hamoked Center for the Defense of the Individual; Kazinform cites Arab News. See www.arabnews.com for full version.