Hamas

[Occhidiangela]

Respect or not. Nothing would change after these elections...neither with fatah nor with hamas. The palastines, don't have any economic means, and they are surrounded by walls and an army. Whatever good intentions they have, the world (US and ISrael, as well as other european countries) will not suply them with the stuff to make those ideas come true.
The only solution to the problem there is one country in which all persons (Israelis and palestinians) are treated equal.
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eppie

I disagree with that view.

What looks likely to change is the fupport for,and the credibility of, the dialogue between the Israeli government and whoever speaks for the Palestinian Authority.

If Hamas is not recognized as a credible party to talks, negotiations, and improvements of the accord that exists today, the situation will change for the worse as less leverage will be applied to Israel to keep change moving forward, and, for example, tear down that damned wall.

The solution you suggest may be two generations away, forty or fifty years, based on Israelis and Palestinians growing up together with a belief that they both have a similar right to live on that bit of real estate. How to unpoison the emotional ane intellectual climate in order to make that happen, so that such a belief is internalized, is well beyond me. If I could figure it out, I'd bring a Nobel Prize home and donate it to the Lounge. ;)

Occhi