michael, I call the reality as I see it. When Hamas says they are utterly opposed to the "occupation of 48 and the occupation of 67" (yes that's how they say it), silly me, I listen and take them at their word. When Hamas calls a "cease-fire" and works it the same way Arafat did, by delegating the terror attacks to other groups so they can claim they uphold the cease-fire, silly me, I notice their MO.
Give me something more positive to notice, and I will notice it. All I need is one Saudi princeling to polute his sacred person by flying to Tel Aviv, I'll take that as a sign that SA finally has bigger fish to fry then sending money to Hams to blow up Jews.
But don't try to feed me with fantasies of the goodwill that will be generated when Hamas takes over the West Bank like they did in Gaza. Hamas, Fatah, Hizbullah all answer to foreign masters, not their own people. This has been true ever since Levi Eshkol asked the mayors of every town in the West Bank in the summer of 67 if they would like to become an autonomous region, and every single mayor replied that he would like that very much, but if he signed a deal with Israel, Arafat would kill him. |
