(Algemeiner) Ronald S. Lauder - The peace process foundered because Abbas signaled that he does not want a negotiated peace with Israel; he wants the international community to hand him a state of Palestine on a platter. Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, said: "Palestinian reconciliation aims to unite the Palestinian people against the prime enemy, the Zionist enemy. It aims to pursue the choice of resistance." While the new Palestinian government supposedly consists of technocrats and not the armed radicals who dominate Palestinian politics, it will only serve to strengthen Hamas. The regime in Gaza rules by terror, exports terror (including attacks on American and Western targets), and rains down rockets on Israel. The United States and all other peace-loving nations should refuse to work with and fund this terrorist-backed entity. The writer is president of the World Jewish Congress.
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