Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents: ANALYSIS / Uncompromising Hamas is in trouble
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Title:Out of touch with reality
Name:Johnboy
City: SydneyState: Australia
Israel seems to believe its own propaganda that, somehow, the chism between Gaza and the West Bank is permanent.

That, in short, the Palestinians in the West Bank aren`t going to care if Israel goes gangbusters on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Utterly Crazy.

Q: If Israel invades the Gaza Strip and takes out every armed militant it sees will its security improve?
A: No, it will get worse.

Q: Why?
A: Because Abbas will throw in the towel in the West Bank, and Hamas will take over the Palestinian leadership in all of the occupied territory.

Oh, Harel didn`t think of that?

Israeli military analyst = tunnel-visioned idiot.

Because, of course, there is no military solution to this; there is only a diplomatic solution.

And Israel is planning on slamming the door on that in a most emphatic manner, and is too stupid to know that.

Third intifada, here we come........