Friday April 29, 2011

I've Been Thinking:

Hamas and Fatah have agreed to unite.

That unity will be a nail both in the coffin of the Israeli peace talks and in the declaration of a Palestinian state.

Israel cannot negotiate with a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas. And the US cannot condone Hamas's participation in a state.

So, too, the Western powers. Yesterday Germany announced that they cannot condone a Hamas government of any kind. Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist and Germany will not tolerate anything short of that. Even if they do not come out as publicly as the Germans, every other Western government feels the same way.

All the diplomatic progress achieved over the past four months by the Palestinian Authority has been destroyed over night.

There is no way that either the United States or any other Western state can recognize a new Palestinian state if Hamas does not recognize Israel's right to exist.

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