...Hamas is realistic. It says to the international community: You talk about the 1967 borders - by all means, make Israel declare that it will withdraw from all the Palestinian lands occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem, that it will accept the right of the refugees and the displaced to return to their lands and property, that it will dismantle the settlements, destroy the separation wall, and release all the prisoners and detainees. Since you believe in it, pressure Israel to do this, and then demand that the Palestinians and the Arabs take serious steps. Then we will be ready to take a serious step that will lead us to true peace. That's realism...

...It is a mistake to confuse political parties spawned in Fear Societies with those spawned in Free Societies. In the West, political parties function to electioneer, govern and propagandize (a part of governing) — in that order. In the Arab Middle East, they function to dominate, rule and indoctrinate. Any political party which originated or siezed power during a Fear phase must be held suspect...