"One fine day we will talk to Hamas."

Who, out of interest, do you mean by "we" here?

You do somewhat mistake me, Steve. I do not suggest that Hamas could at present make good any such threat, or would even necessarily want to. But I do remind you that they have asserted a wish to extirpate and exterminate the Jews ~~ whether just those of Israel or ubiquitously has not made clear; and I have merely suggested an analogy with a previous expresser of a similar aspiration who was not taken seriously at first ~~ or indeed until it was too late. So I make the point that it does not do to be complacent in the face of such declarations of intent.

~M~