Just weeks after one of the most horrifying islamic terror attacks in the history of Israel where the Fogel family was slaughtered in their sleep by Palestinian terrorists, Israel's President, Shimon Peres, is more than willing for the Israelis to begin negotiations with Hamas. You know, the islamic terror group that in its very own charter refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist.
The article at The Telegraph refers to Peres as a "dove"...well, I'd go a bit further and call him a Director of Suicide. This man is like Jimmy Carter with an operating title. It's way past time for Shimon Peres to take his lunatic fantasies of Hamas terrorists hugging the Star of David and just fade off into the sunset.
From the article:
The Israeli president, long a leading dove, said he was convinced that the Islamist movement could be nudged onto a path of moderation just as Yasser Arafat, the late head of the PLO, was persuaded to renounce terrorism and recognise Israel's right to exist.
"Even when I began negotiations with Arafat, they said: 'There's no chance'," he told Ynet, an Israeli news website.
"I think the same thing about Hamas. The name does not interest me, what matters is the content. Anything can happen, because Hamas has problems too, and it's not so strong."
Mr Peres' comments broke ranks with conventional political thinking in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, remains categorically opposed to negotiations with Hamas, which has fired thousands of rockets at towns and cities in the south of the country in recent years.
At a time when Israel is going to be facing incredible international pressure to sit down with this supposed new alliance of Palestinians - the Palestinian Authority and Hamas - the last thing needed is the country's President to be applying the same pressure from within Israel.
And let me just point out something regarding this new found lovefest between Fatah and Hamas....this has been going on for decades....Hamas and Fatah throw down their differences and hold their photo ops and are all smiles for the world and in EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE, that coalition has fallen apart and they go back to killing and terrorizing each other.
So, if anyone thinks this coalition actually represents some sort of stable and viable type of government to rule a Palestinian state...well, they are smoking something.
Hamas was created to destroy Israel. It has never wavered from that mission. And it never will.
Until it is finally destroyed.
Israeli President Shimon Peres urges government to negotiate with Hamas
The Israeli president, long a leading dove, said he was convinced that the Islamist movement could be nudged onto a path of moderation just as Yasser Arafat, the late head of the PLO, was persuaded to renounce terrorism and recognise Israel's right to exist.
"Even when I began negotiations with Arafat, they said: 'There's no chance'," he told Ynet, an Israeli news website.
"I think the same thing about Hamas. The name does not interest me, what matters is the content. Anything can happen, because Hamas has problems too, and it's not so strong."
Mr Peres' comments broke ranks with conventional political thinking in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, remains categorically opposed to negotiations with Hamas, which has fired thousands of rockets at towns and cities in the south of the country in recent years.
Britain, the United States and the European Union also regard Hamas as a terrorist group, a designation they say will not be changed until the group recognises Israel, disavows terrorism and abides by previous peace agreements signed by the Palestinian leadership.
As president, a ceremonious position, Mr Peres's intervention is unlikely to spur the government into talking to Hamas, but, as a leading voice on Israel's dwindling left, he remains respected and his views could lead to renewed debate on the subject.
The secular Fatah faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate president of the Palestinian Authority, signed an agreement to form a power-sharing government with Hamas last week.
Israel has denounced the development and punished Mr Abbas by withholding customs revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority, a move which has been criticised by the United States after it caused a financial crisis within the Palestinian government.
Optimistic observers say they believe Hamas may be looking for a face-saving way to gain international consensus.
Khaled Meshaal, the group's political leader, tempered his normally fiery rhetoric last week by saying that Hamas only seeks to create a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, rather than in the whole of Israel, as it once vowed.
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Israel encouraged the growth of Hamas in the '80s as a counterweight to Fatah - a divide and conquer strategy on the part of the Israelis. This was a big mistake.
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