It may be time for the US and Israel to "get real" about Hamas...
The occupation has caused huge disruption in Palestinian Society...and Hamas has filled the void for many in the occupied territories.
To insist that Hamas can NEVER be dealt with is to prolong the conflict...and make both Israel and the US more vulnerable to attack.
The Days of Sharon are over...it's time for a clean slate in the middle east. The US simply can not "outsource" it's middle east policy to Israel anymore. It's been a disaster... The US simply can not afford the "Likud Agenda" in Palestine...and what it will take in the middle east as a whole.
The Iran "crisis" is essentially a manufactured crisis caused by the emboldening of Iranian leadership because of the disasterous invasion of Iraq by Dubya and the Neocons.
Now Israel wants Iran gone too... But can the US afford another disasterour war in Muslim lands...?
Isn't Afganhistan and Iraq a big enough stage for Muslims to see the "hidden agenda" of the west that they so readily believe in...?
