The Associated Press conducted an exclusive interview Wednesday (Apr. 24) with top Hamas political official Khalil al-Hayya, wherein he said that his militant group would be willing to lay down their arms and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state would be established along its pre-1967 borders as part of a two-state solution. The comments were made amid a stalemate in the ceasefire talks brokered by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States, and the suggestion of Hamas disarming itself could become a significant concession for the group, which officially committed to the…