Tuesday March 17, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Hamas and Fatah are in a deadlock.

Both Hamas and Fatah have had numerous meetings with Egypt in order to come to some sort of understanding or at least an agreement to continue to disagree.

The objective is to create a unity government of Palestinians.
The basic problem is that Hamas will not accept any compromise on Israel. They will not accept Israel's right to exist nor will they honor previous agreements. Numerous compromises were suggested.

The simplest suggestion was to simply be silent on the issue of Israel.
Fatah would agree and Hamas would be silent.
Thankfully, Hamas cannot be silent on the issue of Israel.
Any compromise on Israel's right to exist is a violation of the fundamental credo of Hamas.

So the Palestinians are at a stalemate.
The newest Truman Center poll shows that 54% to 44%, Palestinians believe that attacking Israel is okay.

For Abbas, Fatah and those promoting coexistence that is a damning set of numbers.

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