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President [[Mahmoud Abbas]] presented an ultimatum to Hamas to endorse the Document, which implicitly recognizes Israel,<ref name=bbc_abbas_risks_all/> one of the key demands of the [[Road map for peace]]. He threatened to call a national referendum on the Prisoner's Document if Hamas would refuse. Abbas issued the referendum after Hamas had rejected his demands. A revised National Conciliation Document was negotiated and signed by all factions in June 2006 without being made essential changes to the text. The referendum did not take place. | President [[Mahmoud Abbas]] presented an ultimatum to Hamas to endorse the Document, which implicitly recognizes Israel,<ref name=bbc_abbas_risks_all/> one of the key demands of the [[Road map for peace]]. He threatened to call a national referendum on the Prisoner's Document if Hamas would refuse. Abbas issued the referendum after Hamas had rejected his demands. A revised National Conciliation Document was negotiated and signed by all factions in June 2006 without being made essential changes to the text. The referendum did not take place. | ||
Israel denounced the Prisoners' Document, stating that it did not meet the requirements of the Roadmap most notably that it did not explicitly recognize Israel. Israel also took issue with the document's insistence on the right of return and the right to resist the occupation ″by various means″. | Israel denounced the Prisoners' Document, stating that it did not meet the requirements of the Roadmap most notably that it did not explicitly recognize Israel. Israel also took issue with the document's insistence on the right of return and the [[right to resist]] the occupation ″by various means″. | ||
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Point 2 recalls the 2005 Cairo Declaration about reform and reinforcement of the PLO as representative of "the Palestinian people wherever they are located". In order to achieve "development and activation of the PLO", Hamas and Islamic Jihad are explicitly mentioned to join the PLO. Point 2 also calls for a new [[Palestinian National Council]] through elections before the end of 2006 to represent "all Palestinian national and Islamic forces, factions and parties and all concentrations of our people everywhere". | Point 2 recalls the 2005 Cairo Declaration about reform and reinforcement of the PLO as representative of "the Palestinian people wherever they are located". In order to achieve "development and activation of the PLO", Hamas and Islamic Jihad are explicitly mentioned to join the PLO. Point 2 also calls for a new [[Palestinian National Council]] through elections before the end of 2006 to represent "all Palestinian national and Islamic forces, factions and parties and all concentrations of our people everywhere". | ||
Point 3 states "the right of the Palestinian people in resistance and clinging to the option of resistance with the various means and focusing the resistance in the [[Palestinian territories|occupied territories of 1967]] | Point 3 states "the right of the Palestinian people in resistance and clinging to the option of resistance with the various means and focusing the resistance in the [[Palestinian territories|occupied territories of 1967]] along with the political action and negotiations and diplomatic action and continuation of popular and mass resistance against the occupation in its various forms and policies...". | ||
Point 5 declares the [[Palestinian National Authority|Palestinian Authority]] ″the nucleus of the future state″ and stresses on respecting the laws and the responsibilities and authorities of the president and the government. | Point 5 declares the [[Palestinian National Authority|Palestinian Authority]] ″the nucleus of the future state″ and stresses on respecting the laws and the responsibilities and authorities of the president and the government. | ||