Hamas: Israel, who's that?

Hamas has offically made the statement that they would not recognize Israel.

This should not come as a suprise to anyone who has been following this. It would come as much more of a suprise if Hamas was willing to recognize Israel politically, but then I would wonder what their alterior motive is. However if they decide to honor all of the past peace deals that exist, ones that Israel would have been involved in, then would they not be recognizing Israel? The motivation of receiving international financial aid aside, Hamas would be defying it's core belief if it were to honor these deals - which is why they won't or will find a way to appear to be honoring them on their face, but defying them behind the scenes. One of the biggest ways this could be done could be through Hezbollah and other groups (such as Fatah, as seen here at Captian's Quarters - scroll down to the post on Hamas and violence) of Middle Eastern terrorists and sympathizers who are "working with or being supported by" Hamas. They could use their new found political power to achieve dark aims that they could not do so before they had this sort of influence.

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