World leaders were wrong to boycott Hamas after it won Palestinian elections in 2006, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said for the first time according to the Guardian newspaper. In an interview with the paper, Blair said: In retrospect I think we should have, right at the very beginning, tried to pull [Hamas] into a dialogue and
Tony Blair Expresses Regret Over Boycott Of Hamas
Blair, who strongly supported the US decision to boycott Hamas, said the boycott of Hamas came under extensive Israeli pressure.