"One notes that the Israeli leadership has pulled out of talks with the Palestinians because Hamas is back in the fold." I would have thought that Israel might have chosen negotiators possessed of the intelligence to realise that, since Hamas is the elected government of Gaza and Fatah the government of the West Bank, any peace settlement would, of necessity, include both. The fact that the talks broke down over this point means that either 1). The negotiators are incompetent and should be replaced, or 2). There was never any intention that the talks should succeed. What's your guess as to which?
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