Ms Hilary Minch:

On the recognition of Israel, if we go back to 1998 when the PLO declared a state on 22% of the historic homeland, Hamas recognises that. Whether it is recognising Israel as a Jewish state or a non-Jewish state is not really the point. It recognises the state of Palestine as being on that 22%. That is recognising Israel on the remainder of the land. If we talk about different political parties and the parties in Israel, the Likud charter refuses to recognise a Palestinian state. It refuses to recognise any land west of the Jordan River as being Palestinian. The same could be argued for the Likud Party of which President Netanyahu is in charge. I do not think it is all that helpful to get into what the different political parties-----