Saturday, January 28, 2006

Hamas In Power

My thought about the Hamas victory in the recent Palestinian elections - and maybe this is wishful thinking, but here goes:

Just as it seems to have been that right wing Israeli governments (Begin, Sharon) were better able to make peace with the Arabs than the Israeli left, so too, perhaps it will take the Palestinian "right wing" (in this case Hamas) to have the internal clout to make peace with Israel.

It's along the lines of thought that say that if Hamas leaders go to the Palestinian people and tell them that, for their good, some concessions are necessary, they may go along with it, whereas if the PLO were to try that, Hamas would have prevented it.

Plausible?

2 Comments:

At 7:32 PM, Blogger Asa Zernik said...

Maybe. But, anyway, the election win is, in my mind, not a large injury. The Palestinians already were willing to support Hamas; the fact that Hamas is in government may ensure that more realism enters into the thinking of the electorate.

 
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