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Originally Posted by astralis
anyhow, as far as terror groups go, hamas is not in hezbollah or al-qaeda territory- i think these people can to some degree be influenced. as a sign of this, notice how al-qaeda lambasts hamas whenever it gets the chance.
israel has two options at this point. the first is to negotiate with hamas. the second is to destroy hamas altogether. the first is distasteful, yes.
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How do you see Hamas as in a better position to be influenced than Hizballah? They used this as a photo op. And they are still asking for the same thing they were asking for 5 years ago, a hudna, a temporary cease-fire that eventually ends, so that they can continue attempting to push the Jews into the sea. There was no fundamental shift in the process of the organization. They want Israel to go back to pre-1967 borders, but they see even that sort of move as temporary. If they can be influenced, they certainly have not been influenced enough to abandon that very core doctrine of theirs. And until such time, saying that negotiating with them is distasteful is the understatement of the decade if there ever was one.