Condoleezza Rice will ask Indonesia to pressure Hamas to recognize Israel and renounce violence. “I would hope that Indonesia would add its voice to those who are saying to Hamas that this is the strategic choice that must be made,” the U.S. secretary of state said on the eve of a tour this week that will bring her to the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
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