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Questions for Hamas Leaders in Wake of Gaza War

(Ha'aretz) Amira Hass - Are you still insisting that the past war ended in a victory? You managed to confuse the strongest army in the region. Is that the victory? Israeli tourism suffered losses. The defense budget will increase. If that is the victory, was the price paid by Gaza and its inhabitants worthwhile? You preserve the right to choose the path of war (the armed struggle) for the Palestinians. But for every civic task that must be carried out you reply: That's the job of the reconciliation government [the PA]. Isn't that hypocritical? You said that the cease-fire agreement with Israel is a great achievement. What exactly does it include that makes it such an achievement? You claim that the path of negotiations has proven its futility. What do you propose to do instead of negotiations? The military path and the militarization that you have chosen since the 1990s is older than the years of negotiations. What has it accomplished? During the first decade of the millennium you greatly increased your militarization and began to improve your rockets. And still everything is worse than it was. So perhaps the conclusion is that your armed resistance has also proven its failure and futility?
2014-09-15 00:00:00
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