Diplomacy, Hamas Style
Hamas is lurching through some pro forma diplomatic moves to try to make it seem like they’re a real government, and not just a bunch of terrorist thugs: Hamas gives vision for governing to Abbas.
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas’s prime minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday the militant Islamic group had set out its vision for running a Palestinian government to President Mahmoud Abbas.
But it was unclear what response Hamas had made to a formal accreditation letter Abbas gave Haniyeh last month, asking the group to abide by interim peace deals with Israel.
Abbas has asked Hamas to pursue his peace agenda…
…and that’s where I stopped reading.