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Kerry Renews Push for Israel-Hamas Truce
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"Hamas is looking beyond that at the benefits of the conflict. It is now much more difficult for Abbas to continue giving Hamas a secondary role
in a Palestinian unity government. As for Netanyahu, his efforts to
undermine such a government may have been damaged, since any resolution
to the Gaza crisis may have to include the Palestinian government as a
party," writes Michael Young in the Daily Star.
"The
second-best solution might be to have the Palestinian Authority, which
is more moderate than Hamas and after all is supposed to be nominally in
charge of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, assert its actual authority in Gaza.
Yet, surprisingly, there does not seem to be much discussion of this
option. That may well be a tribute to Hamas's success–little discussed
but hugely significant–in knee-capping Fatah's infrastructure in Gaza,"
writes CFR's Max Boot in Commentary.
" Without a process that includes all parties
at the negotiating table, though, I fear this cycle of violence,
punitive and disproportionate as it is, can lead only to an Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria-type extremism among the Palestinians. Only the
darkest cynic would wish for that," writes Mohammed Omer for the New York Times.
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