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The second part highlights the fear around Hamas winning the election. Having done so, the success of the accord was no longer in the hands of both Palestine an
by spookie 1y ago
The second part highlights the fear around Hamas winning the election. Having done so, the success of the accord was no longer in the hands of both Palestine and Israel. The accord would fail, given Hamas would be in power and showed no interest in following it and violence would prevail.
Apologies for being unclear in the first part, not the intention. Just wanted to point out Egypt was also involved, not just the US. The addition of Israel was for what you said, and there to try and be as neutral as possible (albeit I should have chosen my language better).
- tguvot 1y ago(as somebody who actually lived in Israel during that timeframe) - PA/PLO didn't want hamas to win elections because they didn't want to loose power and money. It extremely corrupt and hamas victory was partly predicated on this - Israel didn't want hamas to win elections because it didn't want terrorist organization running state. When hamas did win, negotiations still continued up till the moment that Obama got elected and killed them [0]. When Ismail Haniye got nominated and voted in as PM there was long discussion in Israel that maybe from position of the power hamas will feel responsibility and will became more political and moderate. I remember countless discussions on tv how moderate Haniye is and if he will embrace oslo accords, recognize Israel, etc. and if we are talking about oslo accords, there were badly wounded [1] by palestinian side by that time (think also second intifada) and everybody just wanted to get to finish line [0] https://www.meforum.org/israeli-settlements-american-pressure https://www.meforum.org/israeli-settlements-american-pressur... [1] http://israelvisit.co.il/BehindTheNews/WhitePaper.htm http://israelvisit.co.il/BehindTheNews/WhitePaper.htm