Comments on: Don’t alienate Hamas http://samsonblinded.org/blog/dont-estrange-hamas.htm A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:53:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Danny the Admin http://samsonblinded.org/blog/dont-estrange-hamas.htm/comment-page-1#comment-19569 Danny the Admin Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:22:13 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/?p=5#comment-19569 Well, in Soviet case corruption was in full swing by early 1930s. How long to corrupt men of convictions? Consider Olmert. He voted against Camp David, but succumbed to money and leftist wife soon afterwards. Obadiah doesn't suggest to withdraw for a truce. His point is that Hamas acted sensibly in its system of values. About Martini - that's figurative only. Virgin Pina Colada. Well, in Soviet case corruption was in full swing by early 1930s.
How long to corrupt men of convictions? Consider Olmert. He voted against Camp David, but succumbed to money and leftist wife soon afterwards.
Obadiah doesn’t suggest to withdraw for a truce. His point is that Hamas acted sensibly in its system of values.
About Martini – that’s figurative only. Virgin Pina Colada.

]]> By: aaron http://samsonblinded.org/blog/dont-estrange-hamas.htm/comment-page-1#comment-19555 aaron Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:45:43 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/?p=5#comment-19555 This doesn't make sence at all. The "truce" Hamas "offered" was predicated on full withdrawal to pre-1967 borders and total deportation of all Jews from the de-facto Hamas state in the territories (including Jerusalem), supposedly your "worst-case scenario". And, oh, you forgot. They don't drink martini. How long you think it takes for men of conviction to get corrupted en masse? It took decades in Soviet case, and I suspect Islamists convictions are stronger. One option is to isolate their children and bring them up in Western values to liberate them from the murderous culture of their fathers, but there's no power on the planet which is prepared to do that, not now. No-one is even prepared to launch a sustained subversive propaganda campain on their culture, like it was done to the Soviet regime post WWII. This doesn’t make sence at all. The “truce” Hamas “offered” was predicated on full withdrawal to pre-1967 borders and total deportation of all Jews from the de-facto Hamas state in the territories (including Jerusalem), supposedly your “worst-case scenario”.

And, oh, you forgot. They don’t drink martini.

How long you think it takes for men of conviction to get corrupted en masse? It took decades in Soviet case, and I suspect Islamists convictions are stronger. One option is to isolate their children and bring them up in Western values to liberate them from the murderous culture of their fathers, but there’s no power on the planet which is prepared to do that, not now. No-one is even prepared to launch a sustained subversive propaganda campain on their culture, like it was done to the Soviet regime post WWII.

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