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June 27, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20070702&s=editorial070207a

Who Lost Gaza?

[New Republic] Editorial - Who lost Gaza? Increasingly, one hears that the disaster is the consequence of Israeli policies or American indifference. It is necessary to insist, therefore, that the primary responsibility for Palestinian actions falls on Palestinians. The internal factors are more decisive than the external factors. The political theology of Hamas is not, as outraged commentators like to say, an expression of nihilism; it is an expression of a grandiose radical worldview. If Hamas were not so genuinely indigenous, it would not be so genuinely terrifying. The more violent Hamas gets, the more one hears that it is time for diplomacy. About what, exactly? The only Palestinian state that Hamas will discuss is the one that will erase Israel from the map. For many decades, the world has clamored for Palestinian self-determination. Well, Palestinian self-determination is here for all the world to see.

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