Richard Murphy at the CFR, here
"....this is a case in which I've come to feel we would have been much better off and the region could have been better off had we engaged with the PLO in those early days. ....On Hamas, a group which has not, to my knowledge, ever launched a deliberate blow against the United States, such as the PLO did--.....Right now there is a cease-fire. Israelis are determined to do nothing that will allow any degree of legitimacy to Hamas.....I don't think we can, politically, move directly to open contacts with Hamas. What we can stop doing is endorsing a policy deliberately aimed at fighting the Palestinians and weakening Hamas..."
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