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Originally Posted by Asghar
Just shows how little you know about Gaza.
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So what?
Tell me you think an organisation that uses force of arms to expel its rivals and holds the abolition of a neighbouring sovreign state as a serious political goal is firing on all cylinders. Go on, I could do with a laugh.
Hamas is aware that it needs credibility and a firm control over its territory. The hostage situation was challenge to their authority so long as it continued and a gilt-edged PR opportunity if they could resolve it.
I'm glad Alan Johnson has been freed but I don't doubt this has happened because it served Hamas' needs.
They may well be devastatingly popular in Gaza right now. But in 1938, Germany was very happy to follow Adolf Hitler, and look where it got them.