Captain's Quarters:
Now that the Israelis have pulled out of Gaza, the politics of the region will hinge on who gets the most credit for their withdrawal. Hamas has started the competition by revealing their once-secretive military wing and claiming credit for a long string of terrorist activity, apparently believing that this will bolster their popularity among the Palestinian people....But they will not find peace.
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Hamas sells violence because the Palestinians buy it in droves. They understand their market better than the US and the Europeans do. The Western media and intelligentsia want to convince themselves and us that the Palestinians want peace, not war, but when given the opportunity they have consistently voted for the radical terrorists of Hamas (as opposed to the "moderate" Fatah terrorists). The fact that no peaceful-coexistence political movement challenging Hamas or Fatah for electoral representation speaks volumes about the supposedly peaceful motivations of the Palestinians.
They want peace, all right -- the peace of the complete annihilation of their Israeli neighbors. That's what Hamas is selling today, and my prediction is that they will find a vast market for their violence and hate.
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