Opinion  Ron Ben-Yishai
Hamas wins, Abbas loses
Ron Ben-Yishai
Published: 24.04.14, 01:02
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1. Time to end the charade!
John Prophet   (04.24.14)
Truth be known Fatah and Hamas have aways been opposite sides of the same coin. Good cop bad cop if you will, a pincer attack on Israel with the same goal. Pushing Israeli into the sea. The Palestinians have never wanted peace, witness all their refusals to compromise. In fact they’ve been playing Israel and the world as fools. Time to call a spade a spade and end the charade. Time to annul Oslo, and it’s also time to annex Judea and Samaria!
2. Just what has Hamas got to offer West Bankers
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (04.24.14)
Except Blood, Failure, Fanaticism, Corruption, Ineptitude and Hopelessness How much of our achievements in the West Bank, our plans for the future are being sacrificed for the sake of so called SHAM unity? We really now do have to question Abbas judgement and role...and as he himself has admitted is he just too worn and tired out to think rationally anymore
3. Any wonder why Haniyeh is grinning?
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (04.24.14)
So it isn't enough he has impoverished Gaza, made himself unbelievably wealthy...that he now turns his grabbing attentions to the West Bank With Abbas offering him and his Hamas Cronies POWER SHARING of a prospering West Bank on a plate So just WHAT is Abbas getting in return? Where does Fancy Boy Mashaal fit into this Jig Saw? Before Abbas can get up to any more mischief its time OVERDUE that he should go
4. Are we really duped that easily?
Amazed Israeli   (04.24.14)
What about the Salafis? why are they kept out of this analysis?
5. And this is the man Israel negotiates with?
gp ,   Tel Aviv   (04.24.14)
When will Israel learn that Abbas is NOT the man to do business with? He follows Arafat's "No" policy to the letter and he certainly isn't followed, either, by the majority of Palestinians. And yet another marriage now made in heaven. Last time I heard, Hamas was throwing Fatah off the roofs in Gaza. Short memories, long lying noses. Still, that's how things work in the Arab world: peace today, war tomorrow, even among themselves.
6. Minority Jews, Israel "divide and rule" of Palestine failed
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (04.24.14)
7. Missed point: PA negotiator says unity must come first
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & NYC   (04.24.14)
So with the PA's top negotiator saying that Unity must come first Israel can say that it is waiting on the internal Palestinian situation to resolve - at their request. Thus it buys Israel 5 weeks before it needs to reconsider releasing the last round of terrorists or holding more talks.
8. It's about time for Bibi to make a Two State Solution's Dead
tom ,   tel aviv   (04.24.14)
speech, preferably in Ariel. I am dead serious. Hence it will be known as The Ariel Speech- kind'a like Obamas Cairo-Speech; just this time: Good For The Jews!
9. Do not analyse inter-Arab deals
Mark B. ,   Amsterdam / Holland   (04.24.14)
They are even more complicated than Sicilian deals. Not double but triple or even more traps in traps in traps in traps... All one can do is wait and see and stay foot. What is sure enough however: the US and mr. Kerry in particular just got spit in the face again.
10. One Israeli State. Bury 2 State Final Solution.
Chaim ,   Israel   (04.24.14)
Now is the perfect time to bury the evil charade of the Two State Final Solution. This tiny land is Israel. Period. The "Arab demographic bomb" is a proven hoax. Time to claim ALL our land!
11. Dishonest fights
atilla karagözoğlu   (04.24.14)
To fight is necessary sometimes But somethimes, you cant give a fight Some things stop you And than you beat yourself But never feel okay They say only time ! will heal your broken feelings In fact no repair comes but to forget about it Somethings you cant even forget about It liners in your memory forever. Somethimes ! long after those times, You feel like your stay in silence happened good. But inside of you, you dream you went all the way, All the way into the fight, Like a full package fight. Than you ask yourself that ; If you have a right to change all your life on a thing ! War or personal fights, Honor, rights involved into it. You heard about staying patient about it, Staying in silence about it, May be the best way, But you are not looking for best ways, All you need is fight no matter how. All you need is not another round, Which you didnt even have the first, İt is only a chance to fight once with all. It is not to repair the honor, İt is only to hurt the other.
12. To fight under equal conditions
atilla karagözoğlu   (04.24.14)
İs there anyone to not dream about ! İs there anyheart which doesnt deserve it. Fight fight fight, Why to always fight ! Are you coward to thing about fight ! Are you brave to give a chance to not do it. If you beat all the way down, Wıll you ever have the broken all into okay ! Or you will only have the revange, You will only feel all right ! To feel all right is better than to fix the broken ? What if to fix it wont make you feel all right ! Will you stay as coward ! Or will you stay as brave ? To be brave ! To be coward ! And to find the only answer if you fight ? How to take your rights back to you ! Staying as gentelman ? Attacking as vampire ! Or waiting for equal conditions ? What you will do ! between staying as gentelman and vampire ?
13. What about Russia?
Eduardo Weisz ,   São Paulo, Brazil   (04.24.14)
What about Russia? A couple of months ago, there was an articule, just like this one, discussing Russia and peace talks and several others discussing Egipt and Russia-Hamas ties. If I remember correctly, this was thought as a relevant issue at the time. Why it is not so now?
14. There's about as much chance of unity
Shachar ,   Eilat   (04.26.14)
between Hamas and Fatah as there is between the Likud and Fatah...it's all a game, nothing has changed
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