An amazing piece by Robert Novak in the Washington Post 2 years ago nearly, saying that Hamas would not controvert the Palestinian Authority's acceptance of the state of Israel, but that the Bush Administration turns a deaf ear, including Novak's old friend Elliott Abrams, who won't return his call. Israel, too, ignores the Hamas "olive branch… Says a Hamas minister: "I don't think the Israeli government wants a two-state solution.
Without pressure from the president of the United States, nothing is
going to happen."
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Israel has derailed all meaningful peace offers, has violated almost all truces and will never sit down and honestly negotiate without a gun to their heads and a kick in the teeth that only America can render.
But America had been circumcised. It feels nothing much.
The Hamas minister whom Novak spoke with was one of 33 elected officials arrested by Israel a month after the interview. He was held for four months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_al-Shaer
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FROM ABOVE: Says a Hamas minister: "I don't think the Israeli government wants a two-state solution. Without pressure from the president of the United States, nothing is going to happen."
FROM ME: Dov Weisglass, Ariel Sharon’s closest adviser at the time, candidly stated that the disengagement from Gaza was aimed at halting the peace process, not encouraging it. He described the disengagement as “formaldehyde that’s necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians.” Moreover, he emphasized that the withdrawal “places the Palestinians under tremendous pressure. It forces them into a corner where they hate to be.”