Laura Rosen, in MoJo, here
"The irony is not lost that in Israel, Malley's position that the current Israeli-Hamas stand off warrants an honest discussion of alternatives has come to be advocated by many former Israeli security and diplomatic veterans from both the right and increasingly the left. Chief among them, former Israeli intelligence chief Efraim Halevy.
"We have to reckon with Hamas as an element in the equation," Halevy told me in a recent unpublished interview. "Now whether this has to be done by direct talks with Hamas is a question of methology, mechanics --- not the principle. The principle is we have to engage them. ... At the moment, neither side wants to speak with the other. But every side wants to engage the other. ...Hamas is willing to act as an element in the equation."
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