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February 21, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.jrep.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enZone=Articles&enDispWho=Article^l660

The Pale Charm of Sharm

(Jerusalem Report) Ehud Ya'ari - Hamas wants to maintain a confrontational cease-fire, studded with occasional incidents, which will provide the constant threat of exploding the entire deal. It sees the cease-fire as a way of stopping, or at least reducing, the operations of the Israeli army and the Shin Bet against its members. In Israel there are the usual starry-eyed pundits predicting that Hamas is about to transform itself from a terrorist underground to a political party. But this is a serious mistake. Hamas seeks a political cover for its military movement, not its elimination.

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