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Rogue Ex Presidents
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
It didn't work well, because Hamas is who they are -- they won't willingly compromise or bow to that kind of pressure, and they thought (correctly) that they could get more political mileage from resistance and that the US policy would harden their support. And -- they are willing to see people suffer for their cause.
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And because even if the effect of our policies was to weaken Hamas a little, they still are a whole lot more effective than the corrupt band of thugs that is Fatah. We seem to have overestimated Fatah's political strength, at least in Gaza.
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