Some Hamas leaders are saying now that the organization has changed its position regarding suicide bombings and will no longer use them.
Really? I wonder why! Could it have anything to do with winning the elections? Nay! That would be too... (what's a polite word? Damn the English language!).. calculating? No way. They can't be so cynical and manipulative, can they now?
Needless to say, these same Hamas leaders will never say such things to their own people.To the Observer, to Kofi Anan, to my mother in-law, maybe. But never ever to their own people, in whose name and flesh and blood they carry out these attacks.
But regardless of their motivations and intentions, it's a good thing that they are giving up suicide bombings. I'm beginning to think that maybe something good will come out of them winning the elections.
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Well if your point is that these tools were used to gain political power (ie to win elections in Palestine) then won't the other groups (ie fateh) use them now that they have lost the elections. So unfortunately I don’t see an end in sight for suicide bombings.
Then I change my mind: nothing good came out of electing them.
My hope is that since fateh was doing suicide bombings so as not to be upstaged by Hamas, maybe now they would try to upstage it with other things that do not include suicide bombings. It's not like the Palestinians are clamoring for those. Hani Masri, who is Fateh as far as I know, has been critical of suicide bombings for a long time and continues to be. so there's hope.
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