re: #198 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ideally, you find an ally inside the enemy camp who you can work with to drive the hostiles out of power and establish peaceful relations after that.

If Abbas could be trusted, then the Israelis could back him in a move to eliminate Hamas politically and militarily and establish a long term plan for negotiations.

The problem now being that Abbas cannot be trusted.

When you’re referring to all of the Palestinian people as “the enemy camp,” I have a little problem trusting your opinion about who can’t be trusted.

It seems to me that the real problem right now is the infighting; in Ireland, there was exactly one clear terrorist wing and one clear political wing. So Britain could negotiate with the political wing, and they in turn could deal with the terrorist wing. But when you’ve got multiple competing groups on both the terrorist and political sides of the equation, that process isn’t effective.