Friday, January 27, 2006

 

Will Hamas have the same fate as Irgun?

Hamas has 76 seats in the 132-member parliament of the Palestinian Authority. The Bush administration is wondering how to deal with a Hamas government. Israel is concerned. Everyone is concerned.

What goes around comes around. Israel and the Bush administration are concerned to fight terror and terrorist organizations. Hamas is a terrorist organization. However, some of us old farts can remember a time when the active terrorist organizations in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine were the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi. These terrorist organizations were led by men who later became prime ministers of Israel. Irgun and the Stern Gang no longer exist. I don’t know what happened to them, but I suspect that they morphed into respectable political parties in Israel.

I expect the same future for Hamas.
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