Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas
Hamas’s desire to best Hezbollah’s achievements is natural, of course, but, more to the point, it is radicalizing. One of the reasons, among many, that Hamas felt compelled to break its cease-fire with Israel last month was to prove its potency to Muslims impressed with Hezbollah. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
I am afraid that even the meager hopes that are expressed for a Fatah-backed peace are misplaced, because, at this time, the goal of a Middle East entirely free of any vestige of an independent democratic Jewish state remains at the center of all movements and regimes involved in the area. Only a clear end to incitement to hate and violence in the schools, media, and mosques will signal the beginning of a change in that position.