Mladen and Sofa - You have read more into my comment than I intended

Reader comment on item: Bush's Middle East Hopes [and His Failures]
in response to reader comment: The Israelis, quite naturally, want to live in peace. And so do the Palestinians. - This statement needs clarification.

Submitted by Sully (United States), Jan 25, 2008 at 09:18

I was commenting on the futility of American Presidents attempting to engineer pie in the sky solutions. Your point about the refusal of Fatah to accept the best deal that the Palestinian people are even going to get is actually proof of my point. And the election of Hamas is merely proof that Fatah appeared to be as corrupt as a government could be.

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