Reply #12: I think you've proven my point [View All]

[Kurska]

Israel doesn't want to talk to hamas until they are recognized and the hamas of today will never do this. Hamas is willing to talk seriously to The PA, but only on the grounds they are eventually or partially restored to power circa the previous election ( Something that the PA has no interest in doing, even from the most diplomatic standpoint, why give up power to a rival whose previous mandate has clearly run it's course, even for a moment?).

Hamas's willingness to talk is entirely based on demands that neither the PA or Israel sees benefits in accepting. Nor their future foreseeable leaders, Abbas just wants a mandate that he will get (even if he has to force the election) and not even labor would make the first move toward hamas.

Essentially, if Israel and the PA are the only ones talking, they are the only ones who are going to work out some sort of peace deal, one that in any close time line couldn't contain hamas nor gaza. So any peace deal possible at this point would infact create 3 states, one israeli, one palestinian and one Gazan-Hamas enclave.