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Carter and Hamas
By Micah Halpern

Monday December 15, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

Yesterday Former President Jimmy Carter met Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal.
This is their second meeting since April.
This time, Carter and Mashall wanted a quiet meeting and did not call for the almost requisite post-meet press conference.

Before the meeting Mashaal had said that there was no need for Hamas to continue the "lull" in the conflict with Israel.
Carter was pressuring to continue the "lull."
Immediately after the announcement of not renewing the "lull" a Hamas spokesman in Gaza said it was unclear as to whether the "lull" would continue.

The best Israeli insight says that Hamas wants to continue the "lull."
It says that this latest set of saber rattling is specifically intended get more out of negotiations with Israel. Hamas can only gain from quiet, it allows them to rebuild Gaza in relative calm and without fear of retaliation.
That is their objective.

No surpise, but when Mashaal speaks he is not telling the entire truth, he is simply posturing in order to obtain a better bargaining position.

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