Abbas rules out talks with Hamas

New early elections?

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Abbas was in Egypt meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak over the crisis on Egypt's border where Hamas militants and blew holes in the frontier unleashing a flood of desperate Palestinians into Rafah.

"There will be no talks with Hamas unless they comply with the conditions we have put forward to back off their coup, to recognize international legitimacy and to accept new early elections," he said after the meeting.

Egyptian officials have been pressing Abbas to compromise with the Islamist Hamas movement which currently has total control of the Gaza Strip on Egypt's border.

Hamas officials are also in Cairo Wednesday to meet with senior Egyptian officials, including the influential head of Egypt's intelligence service, Omar Suleiman, to press their case for a role in any future border agreement.

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And he would be right.