In a move rejected by Hamas, former Israeli defence Minister Shaul Mofez made headlines yesterday calling for negotiations with the radical Palestinian organization following the immediate creation of a Palestinian state on 60% of west bank territory with negotiations to follow on the rest. An initiative like this is supported by a large majority of Israelis.
Whatever the outcome, this and the resignation of PA President Mahmoud Abbas signal that the PA and the Fatah movement it evolved from are a spent force. It is arguable that it never was a legitimate force in Palestinian politics but rather a creation of an Oslo peace process conceived in dishonesty and doomed to failure. And the legendary corruption of Arafat and his cronies certainly sealed its fate.
One can only be hopeful that negotiations with a Palestinian entity, no matter how distasteful, that has legitimacy with those it claims to represent will at last bear fruit.
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