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Masked Palestinian Hamas militants hold a press conference in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (Khalil Hamra / AP Photo) The Middle East peace talks look and sound like every other failed effort. Time to bring in Hamas from the cold, argues Israeli writer Roi Ben-Yehuda.
A few weeks ago, at a dinner with Yuli Tamir, Israel’s former minister of education and one of the founding members of Peace Now, I asked whether negotiations without Hamas can succeed. “Well, if negotiations do succeed—and I am highly skeptical they will—Hamas will feel tremendous pressure to make the necessary compromises, and join in the negotiations,” said Tamir. “They are a rational actor and, given their political position today, I don’t think they want to be seen as an absolute spoiler, should the negotiations produce real dividends.”
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