The U.S. Army speaks up for Hamas

[DogPoundPup]

Wed, 12/31/2008 - 5:00pm

The Army War College chose this week to release a report that has some surprisingly kind words for Israel's foes in the Gaza Strip: "HAMAS' political and strategic development has been both ignored and misreported in Israeli and Western sources which villainize the group, much as the PLO was once characterized as an anti-Semitic terrorist group," writes Sherifa Zuhur, a research professor at the War College's Strategic Studies Institute. "Negotiating solely with the weaker Palestinian party-Fatah-cannot deliver the security Israel requires. . . . The underlying strategies of Israel and HAMAS appear mutually exclusive . . . . Yet each side is still capable of revising its desired endstate and of necessary concessions to establish and preserve a long-term truce, or even a longer-term peace."

Among her timely if impolitic recommendations: "Israel and the United States need to abandon their policies of non-negotiation and non-communication with HAMAS."

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/node/10703

[Loudmxr]

1. Anti Hamas Rule #1

Make life pleasant for your neighbor so they won't democratically vote in some party that wants to destroy you. :smoke: