Hamas may have lost popularity since the election in 2006 and since my last visit (2008). This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Israeli policies, but rather with weariness with Hamas’s Islamism, nuttiness and intolerance. Antics like Hamas’s attacks on summer camps for kids are emblematic of how the group antagonizes ordinary people. People are just tired of Hamas, and if Israel would stay out of the picture there’s some hope Hamas could eventually be displaced.
Now, if he could only persuade Hamas not to initiate, back and support terror attacks against Israel and to release Gild Shalit, well, then Kristof could be useful.
Instead of being one of those 'useless idiots' that populate the pages of the NYTimes.
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