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Sun, Mar 9th 2008, 01:28

Pat Patterson, Republican, Bronze Contributor (16)

The problem with this warmed over tactic from the Barak era is the suggestion that there is no moral hazard for Israel or the West in negotiating with an illegal Palestinian rump state. What is the point of asking for a two-state solution when the two sides that are legitimate democracies, albeit a not particularly brutal and nor very successful one in Gaza, when one side then chooses to negotiate with a group that seized power in spite of an election process that was comparably ranked as adequate.

The United States after plenty of fits and starts eventually recognized the PROC as the legitimate ruler of China and not the ROC in Taiwan even following the lead of the Europeans in this case. Negotiating with the PA is worse than useless because exxcept for some minor recent successes against Hamas they have failed to eliminate its internal opposition and actually cannot even be seen attempting to do so in fear of being labeled Quislings. Solve Gaza first then the West Bank will follow suit.