It seems that Israel is caught between a rock and a hard place.
On the one hand, Israel dearly wants the Palestinians to have their own country. For the most part, this is not due to any altruistic feelings. The Jewish leadership in Israel have come to the realization that the Palestinian (muslim) population is growing faster than the Israeli (Jewish) population. They only have two (rational) choices: “allow” the Palestinians to set up their own government, or eventually turn over the government of Israel to the Palestinians (as happened in South Africa with the end of apartheid). Since there’s no way that their turning over the government, they have to allow the Palestinians to set up their own government and therefore stay out of Israeli politics.
On the other hand, Hamas is now running the Palestinian authority, and the Israeli government doesn’t deal with Hamas (except to fire missiles at their leaders).
So, Israel is now stuck. At this point, almost all of the cards are in Hamas’ hand. What a country.
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