International Recognition, Limelight Fail To Moderate Hamas
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Hamas will not recognise Israel despite pressure from Russia to do so. Senior leaders of the Palestinian party are currently in Moscow, the first visit by Hamas leaders to a major foreign power since it won Palestinian parliamentary elections on January 25... Moussa Abu Marzouk, Hamas's deputy political leader, said recognising Israel would negate all Palestinian rights. "Therefore the recognition of Israel is not on the agenda."
It turns out that treating terrorists like honored diplomats is not the best way to convince them that terrorism is a strategy that will prevent them from being treated like honored diplomats. We do have to admit to a little disappoint regarding Moscow's inability to get Hamas to lie about their intentions. Even Egypt - during their five years of making Hamas more powerful by constantly inviting them over for "ceasefire talks" - managed to convince the terrorists from Hamas to lie a little about being terrorists. Then again, Hamas wasn't the internationally recognized, legitimate government of the largest charity case on the planet back then. Now, having watched the world put up only the barest pretense of punishing the Palestinians for electing a terrorist government and then retreat even from that, Hamas knows that there's nothing they can say or do that will lose them international support, money, and military-style "police" training.
Hamas will not recognise Israel despite pressure from Russia to do so. Senior leaders of the Palestinian party are currently in Moscow, the first visit by Hamas leaders to a major foreign power since it won Palestinian parliamentary elections on January 25... Moussa Abu Marzouk, Hamas's deputy political leader, said recognising Israel would negate all Palestinian rights. "Therefore the recognition of Israel is not on the agenda."
It turns out that treating terrorists like honored diplomats is not the best way to convince them that terrorism is a strategy that will prevent them from being treated like honored diplomats. We do have to admit to a little disappoint regarding Moscow's inability to get Hamas to lie about their intentions. Even Egypt - during their five years of making Hamas more powerful by constantly inviting them over for "ceasefire talks" - managed to convince the terrorists from Hamas to lie a little about being terrorists. Then again, Hamas wasn't the internationally recognized, legitimate government of the largest charity case on the planet back then. Now, having watched the world put up only the barest pretense of punishing the Palestinians for electing a terrorist government and then retreat even from that, Hamas knows that there's nothing they can say or do that will lose them international support, money, and military-style "police" training.
