I was very impressed with your Oct 13 article "Can Terrorism be Resistance?". I understood the conclusion was pretty much a No. If the recent atrocities by Hamas result in a cease-fire and negociation, would you consider then that their terrorism "worked"? As an aside, I agree with you in this article and I also suspect regular Israelis do too, which is one of the reasons they despise Netanyahu.
I was very impressed with your Oct 13 article "Can Terrorism be Resistance?". I understood the conclusion was pretty much a No. If the recent atrocities by Hamas result in a cease-fire and negociation, would you consider then that their terrorism "worked"? As an aside, I agree with you in this article and I also suspect regular Israelis do too, which is one of the reasons they despise Netanyahu.
It's a good question. I think the short answer is that the peace process would happen in this situation despite Hamas, not particularly because of it. And we have to look at it in a long history of Hamas' terrorism: It used suicide bombings and attacks on civilians to properly kill the Oslo process, and to frustrate other peace processes. If this particular attack provoked a ceasefire, it would come after decades of other attacks made peace less and less likely. And, indeed, Hamas doesn't even *want* a peace process.
I was very impressed with your Oct 13 article "Can Terrorism be Resistance?". I understood the conclusion was pretty much a No. If the recent atrocities by Hamas result in a cease-fire and negociation, would you consider then that their terrorism "worked"? As an aside, I agree with you in this article and I also suspect regular Israelis do too, which is one of the reasons they despise Netanyahu.
It's a good question. I think the short answer is that the peace process would happen in this situation despite Hamas, not particularly because of it. And we have to look at it in a long history of Hamas' terrorism: It used suicide bombings and attacks on civilians to properly kill the Oslo process, and to frustrate other peace processes. If this particular attack provoked a ceasefire, it would come after decades of other attacks made peace less and less likely. And, indeed, Hamas doesn't even *want* a peace process.
So I think we can still say it doesn't work.