How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Hamas
Charles Johnson
Thu Jan 26, 2006 at 9:10 am PST • Views: 249
According to al-Reuters, Arabs around the world believe the US will learn to love Hamas.
Or at least submit to it.
In the face of widespread admiration for Hamas and a decline in support for Fatah in the Arab world, Arab leaders too are likely soon to start treating Hamas with more respect.
The Egyptian government already has a good working relationship with Hamas despite the historic ties and strategic alliance between Hamas and the opposition Muslim Brotherhood.
Mohamed Habib, deputy leader of the Egyptian Islamist movement, told Reuters that the vote for Hamas meant that Palestinians had opted for the choice of “resistance.”
“(Israel and the United States) will have no alternative but to deal with Hamas … The Americans will submit to this, especially as Hamas does not want to monopolize power,” he said.
“The Americans will start secret contacts with Hamas and in fact they have already started. But in the first moments they will exert public pressure to try to make Hamas change some of its ideas,” added Diaa Rashwan, an Egyptian specialist on Islamist movements in the Middle East.
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