1.  And last month he got the Palestine National Council, as promised, to expunge from the PLO covenant passages calling for the destruction of the Israeli state.

2.  And last month he got the Palestinian National Council, as promised, to expunge from the PLO covenant passages calling for the destruction of the Israeli state.

3.  Arab countries in the region protested the Israeli state, and war broke out.

4.  Author Klein Halevi said the new cooperation is a sign that the group is slowly acknowledging the reality of the ever-stronger Israeli state.

5.  Hamas, however, has never accepted the existence of an Israeli state within any borders.

6.  He believes that Turkey should not only stop cooperating with Israel, but also begin supporting militant groups like Hamas that are fighting to destroy the Israeli state.

7.  He came of age steeped in the secular Zionism of the founding years of the Israeli state.

8.  Israeli textbooks do not show the hundreds of Palestinian villages that were wiped out when the Israeli state was born.

9.  Peres also restated his belief that a Palestinian state is a necessity in assuring that there can be a peaceful Israeli state.

10.  Palestinians endured incredible hardships and persecutions during the creation of the Israeli state, and those pains continue.