(Haaretz).President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday that Israel did not oppose the Obama administration's diplomatic overtures to Iran regarding its contentious nuclear program.
Following talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, Peres told Haaretz: "I said if you want diplomacy, I hope you succeed. Israel is not delivering ultimatums to America."
"Iran will not get atomic weapons, but we cannot look just at the clock. Whoever wants to set a timetable on Iran is working on the assumption that the situation is frozen. The situation is constantly changing and Ahmadinejad is dividing the Muslim world."
"I told the secretary of state that the Hamas problem now belongs to Egypt, Abu Mazen, Palestinians, basically the whole Sunni world. I told her that difference between Hamas and Fatah is not political, but fundamental.
"Fatah is a political movement and Hamas is religious. A political movement knows it needs to make compromises. A political movement has a deadline and a religious movement has eternity. A political movement knows that it can't both fire and conduct negotiations, but a religious movement does not follow this logic."
