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August 9, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/080305dnedihamas.1218ece0.html

The Gaza Test: Palestinians Must Ensure Peaceful Pullout

(Dallas Morning News) Editorial - With its Gaza Strip withdrawal now in motion, Israel is undertaking a painful but necessary step toward peace with the Palestinians. Tragically - no, infuriatingly - terrorist hardliners in Hamas are threatening to destroy what the Sharon government is achieving at great political cost to itself and searing emotional pain for the Israeli public. It is in everybody's interest that the Palestinians succeed in governing Gaza. Trouble is, the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas is stronger on the ground in Gaza than the Palestinian government under Mahmoud Abbas, and there is reason to fear that Hamas, which refuses to make peace with Israel, will attempt to turn the Gaza Strip into a terrorist statelet.

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