Hamas-Heavy Legislature Takes Its Oaths ; Its Leaders Have No Plans to Negotiate with Israel

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RAMALLAH, West Bank With solemn speeches and an incantation of Quranic verses, a new Palestinian legislature dominated by the Islamist group Hamas was sworn in Saturday, setting the scene for a tense confrontation with Israel.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called upon the incoming government, which Hamas will form in the coming weeks, to honor past accords with Israel and continue to seek a negotiated peace that would lead to side-by-side states.

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Hamas-Heavy Legislature Takes Its Oaths ; Its Leaders Have No Plans to Negotiate with Israel

"We ... will continue our commitment to the negotiation process as the sole political, pragmatic and strategic choice," Abbas told lawmakers, diplomats and dignitaries who assembled here for the swearing-in ceremony, together with a parallel gathering in the G...

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