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Setting the Record Straight

Hamas Must Not Set the Agenda

posted on 03/05/08

"So here we are, in the midst of exactly the scenario that many months ago we predicted: the ‘peace process,’ having dutifully ignored the Gaza Strip, is discovering that the Gaza Strip will not ignore the peace process. … One hopes that when Condi Rice arrives in Jerusalem, her agenda will be consumed by Middle East realities, rather than the Middle East fantasy of the peace process, which is now over and done with."
–Noah Pollak, Commentary Magazine, March 2008

VS.

“We decided to go to Annapolis to work with the pragmatic leaders, to start this peace process with an understanding that we are doing so even though we are going to face terror attacks on Israel … I said clearly that we are going to continue the negotiations because otherwise we give Hamas the keys and control of the peace treaty because if they know that by using terror they win the cessation of the negotiations, this would only give them a good reason to continue terrorism.”
–Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni, briefing foreign ambassadors on the escalation of Israel-Hamas conflict, March 3, 2008