Apparently the responsibility of having to govern -- and the prospect of bankruptcy -- is having an effect on Hamas.
A senior Hamas official said Friday the group is ready to accept a "two-state" solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Hamas prime minister said he is unaware of plans by the Islamic militants to change their hard-line government platform.
The senior Hamas official said the two-state idea was to be raised by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in a meeting Friday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate who advocates negotiations with
Israel.
The meeting was preceded by a series of contradictory statements from Hamas officials about whether a new government would recognize Israel in some fashion.
There's a lot of waffling there, so I'll believe it when I see it. But the fact that they're even willing to float the idea shows the pressure they're under. Not from the outside so much as internally: now that they're in charge, they have to act responsibly.
Apparently even Hamas can be tamed -- not by us, but by the Palestinian people.
Israel, Hamas, politics, midtopia
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