• March 17, 2006
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’We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea’

’We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea’

Since Hamas won control of parliament in the recent Palestinian elections, policymakers in Washington and Jerusalem have been faced with a dilemma: how to deal with a democratically elected government that is also on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. Last week, Newsweek-Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth interviewed Hamas’s new prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, by phone in his home in the refugee camp where he lives with his wife and 12 children in Gaza.