“The Americans and the Europeans say to Hamas: either you have weapons or you enter the legislative council. We say weapons and the legislative council. There is no contradiction between the two.”Steven Erlanger and Greg Myre, “Hamas Presses Fatah in Palestinian Vote, Surveys Say,” New York Times, January 26, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/international/middleeast/26mideast.html.