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“Haniyeh is to tell Abu Mazen (Abbas) tonight that Hamas is able to adopt the two-state solution as a platform of the Cabinet. But we know Israel doesn’t accept us. We want to give room for movement and to lift international pressure on the Cabinet,” the senior official said.
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The Israelis dismiss the Hamas waltz with reality as verbal gymnastics which it may very well be. However, the West, by breaking off relations with the PA under Hamas and withholding any funding is doing what needs to be done to force Hamas to accept that it must negotiate with Israel.
Now there is always the danger that Hamas will find the billion that the Troll of Ramallahtm stole before he was gathered to his Hellish reward; but even then the reality of the self inflicted plight of the Palis is beginning to sink in.
Hamas is fighting the bit complaining that the withdrawal of funding amounts to “collective punishment of all Palestinians” which indeed it does. So what? What the Palis have to clue into is that the Israelis are going to make peace in the area with or without Palestinian co-operation. If need be by finishing the wall and leaving the Palis to stew in their own juice largely forgotten by the West and hated by the Arab world. It is pretty much up to Hamas as to whether it will retain its purity and ensure this fate or beging to negotiate.
The collective action of the West in the face of the Hamas victory shows what can be achieved when the West works together.
Written by jay on April 8th, 2006 with
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