They Want ANOTHER Chance??
When does it end?. How many deals do the Palestinians think we will make? They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Who are the Palestinians? Clearly thee are many modern, peace-loving, tolerant Palestinians. Only determined ignorance could suggest otherwise. But common sense forces even the most charitable to acknowledge that Abbas/Arafat are dismissable as leaders because they have no say with the militants in Hamas/Islamic Jihad/etc. Palestinians as a whole have yet to show th world that they prefer the Abbas's of the world to those of Hamas, etc.

One problem rarely rcognized by the US is that Hamas also plays a vital, legal role in the lives of many Arabs for schools, medical care, some policing, etc. In short, it derives some of its legitimacy by providing many of those goverment services we take for granted and Arab depots do not provide. This makes it much more difficult to remove the Hamas network, because like the Mafia, its has many legal fronts.

Another problem is that Hamas is Iran-Syrian-Lebanese(Shi'ite) centric and the centers of finance and decision-making power lie in those nations - none of whom fear a US "regime-change" operation anytime soon because they know we are militarily and politically stretched with what's on our plate now. Every terrorist act in Iraq and Afgahanistan is a political drain for the US. There is time to turn it around, but not that much, anymore........