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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/821810.html
No Chance to Change Hamas
[Ha'aretz] Danny Rubinstein - After a full year of talks between Fatah and Hamas, the picture emerging is that it is impossible to settle the disagreements between the sides. Fatah cannot renege on the agreements of the past and retreat from its recognition of Israel. And if there was once a belief that Hamas might change and its positions would become more moderate, it is now clear that this cannot happen. As a religious movement and a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas is not able to change its positions. The way to deal with Hamas is therefore not to try to change it but to push it to the sidelines - to try to return it to the status and size it had before the last elections.