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Hamas' Double Message
By Micah Halpern

Monday November 12, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Hamas has been sending out some conflicting messages the past few weeks. That should not surprise anyone, but it does make for more difficulty in trying to predict the future behaviors of Hamas.

On Friday Hamas' former Foreign Minister Mahmoud al Zahar said that they will soon be taking over the West Bank.
As soon as Israel withdraws, he said, Hamas will take over.
This would echo exactly what Hamas did in Gaza.
But Ismail Hanyieh, the prime minister of Hamas has made it clear that Hamas has no aspiration for the West Bank.

This is not the first inconsistency.
The reality is that Hamas cannot wait to take over the West Bank and trounce Abbas and Fatah - but at this moment they cannot do it.
Israel is there and Fatah forces are more capable in the West Bank than they were in Gaza.

Hamas wants it bad.
Just listen to al Zahar: "we say to those in the West Bank, take a lesson from what happened in Gaza."
That sounds pretty clear and unequivocal to me.

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