I'd be lying if I said I were not deeply concerned by the results of the Palestinian elections. Hamas' charter, after all, does not even recognize Israel's right to exist.
However, I remind myself that Sharon was viewed as a similarly unlikely partner for peace when he became Prime Minister, and those dim expectations of him turned out to be not so dim after all. So perhaps there's still hope.
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Sharon and Israel never had a charter that called for the destruction and demolition of a state. I am not real optimistic about this.
If you read this transcript it is really not very promising.
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=980
Posted by Jack | January 26, 2006 9:14 AM