According to Reports: Has Hamas Really Changed? Can It?
From time to time reports appear in the media indicating that Hamas is in the midst of moderating its rejectionist stand against Israel.
For instance, in the Jan. 4 issue of Maclean’s, former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy was interviewed by Yoni Goldstein who asked whether Israel should negotiate with that organization. Halevy answered: “What we need to do is to bring Hamas to a point where it will understand that it is in its interest to reach an accommodation with Israel. And I believe they are on the way.”
When Goldstein asked for the evidence to back up his judgment, Halevy replied: “First of all, Hamas’s leader, Khaled Meshal, is on the record as saying that he is willing to accept the borders of 1967 as the provisional borders of a Palestinian state. He is not relinquishing the ultimate dream that he will control all of Palestine. But he says that, for the moment, he will accept the 1967 borders. That brings him toward the position where he is accepting the reality of Israel.”