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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
You miss the most powerful factor in the entire region, and the most attractive reason for voting Hamas into power: religion.
Hamas ran with a policy of instituting Sharia, not only in Palestine, but all of the Holy Land. Perhaps you would get a Hamas that puts aside the rockets and drifts closer to the modern incarnation of the Muslim Brotherhood, where its origins lay and a heavy influence still resides. To believe the virulent strain of Islamism in the region would just up and dissipate soon as the Jews and Muslims decided to live together in the same state, though, simply isn't realistic knowing the importance of the Muslim religion in the region and the history of Islamism in the area (and the resurrection of the Muslim Brotherhood elected into power in the surrounding countries since the Arab Spring). In a unified state Jews would very quickly be in the minority, and the gap between the two population groups would only continue to grow as the years progress, as the statistics show is happening already in the region.
As far as my opinion goes, a dismissal of Hamas following a "unified state" solution is an incorrect conclusion to make.
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As an addon I believe that if peace ever broke out in that region that was acceptable all of the violent groups bent on the destruction of Israel would not only lash out in a final attempt to reach martydom, but they would do everything that can to poison any peace agreement.
Part of any peace plan has to include a co-operatative extermination of the leadership of those terrorist groups to have a hope to succeed.