Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Are Hamas in power or not?

I was reading this article by the existing President that he would pursue peace with Israel. It appears mainly because they need to money which most Western Governments have said they would withhold from Hamas.

Now, maybe I'm too thick to understand but it sounded to me like his party lost the election. If so, how can he make a statement like that when Hamas has clearly said it would not recognise Israel and would push for it's destruction.

Hamas are in power now and although as president he can attempt to lead them to a sensible way forward how long does he realistically have at the helm? How long do we have before we have someone like the Iranian president who makes a mutual protection deal with Iran, Syria and some of the others, including Iraq?

A good try to save the funding but ultimately doomed to failure I suspect.

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