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Originally Posted by go bowe
what is being suggested is a way to win at the ballot box and displace hamas...
if they refuse reasonable concrete offers to settle the dispute over and over again and continue to rely on armed "resistance", the citizens of gaza will vote them out soon enough...
we haven't seen hamas "refuse peace" that was reasonable and allowed the creation of a palestinian state with control over it's own resources and resolved issues like sharing jerusalem and freezing further israeli settlements on the west bank...
to refuse such a deal would cause hamas to lose the support of the ordinary gazan pretty quickly...
contrary to popular belief, most palestinians want to live in peace in a free state, without israeli occupation and without ruthless extremists running their lives...
if israel offers such a deal, it could lead to hamas losing power, which is what everybody except hamas wants, isn't it?
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This is nonsense, IMO. It didn't work to turn the palestinian people against Arafat's PLO (instead he rallied the 2nd intifada against Israel) so why should it work to turn them against Hamas?
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