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REPORT: Netanyahu reiterates Israel will not talk with Hamas-backed Palestinian govt

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27-04-2014 | 03:43

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday his government would not take part in Middle East peace talks with a Palestinian government backed by Islamist group Hamas.

In an interview with CNN, Netanyahu also said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's comments earlier on Sunday denouncing the Holocaust could not be reconciled with his alliance with Hamas.

Israel this week called off peace talks with the Palestinians after Abbas announced an alliance with the militant group, viewed by the United States, the European Union and Israel as a terrorist organization.

Earlier, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the Holocaust "the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history."

His comments, published Sunday by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA, marked a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide. Some 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust.

Abbas' comments were published just hours before Israel's annual memorial for Holocaust victims.

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