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To: Elroy who wrote (240861)	9/4/2007 3:39:38 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh, I doubt that. Think about it - if the opportunity to be the father of a new Gaza nation were dropped in the lap of the Hamas leadership, to gain international recognition as the great bringer of peace (to at least the people of Gaza), and for self rule in Gaza (as opposed to being 2nd to the outsider PA leadership) are you really so sure that Hamas leadership could pass that up? What do you mean, if? Nothing is stopping Hamas from making that declaration right now - nothing but their own ideology. What the international community is actually asking of them is much less, merely to uphold the previously signed agreements which recognize Israel, and they won't even do that, though it's costing them millions. If they declared Gazastan inside Gaza, and in so doing implicitly recognized the borders of Israel, they could end the blockade and get billions of foreign investment instantly. They don't do it because they don't want to do it. How many weird loops and convolutions do you have to go through to avoid this obvious answer? If it's impossible to get Gaza to recognize Israel's right to exist, then its gotta be impossible to get the one Pal state to do so. Well, Arafat did recognize Israel back in 1993. He was lying and it was a ruse, but the diplomatic fiction remains intact.