For many the thought of recognising Hamas is akin to a red rag to a bull. For others, like former the Mossad head Ephraim Halevy, Israel needs to in its own interests.
As Tanya Reinhart writes on Znet:
"The Hamas government must be recognized, not only because recognition of Hamas would be good for Israel, as the former Mossad head Ephraim Halevy recently argued,(1) but because this is the right move by any criterion of justice and international law.
The U.S. and Europe decided, despite Israel’s opposition, to permit the Palestinian people to hold democratic elections. According to Jimmy Carter’s report in the “Herald Tribune”, the elections were “honest, fair, strongly contested, without violence and with the results accepted by winners and losers. Among the 62 elections that have been monitored by... the Carter Center, these are among the best in portraying the will of the people.”(2)"
Read the full article here. You may not be convinced of the arguments for recognition of Hamas, but reality dictates to ignore them is do so at peril.
As Tanya Reinhart writes on Znet:
"The Hamas government must be recognized, not only because recognition of Hamas would be good for Israel, as the former Mossad head Ephraim Halevy recently argued,(1) but because this is the right move by any criterion of justice and international law.
The U.S. and Europe decided, despite Israel’s opposition, to permit the Palestinian people to hold democratic elections. According to Jimmy Carter’s report in the “Herald Tribune”, the elections were “honest, fair, strongly contested, without violence and with the results accepted by winners and losers. Among the 62 elections that have been monitored by... the Carter Center, these are among the best in portraying the will of the people.”(2)"
Read the full article here. You may not be convinced of the arguments for recognition of Hamas, but reality dictates to ignore them is do so at peril.
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