By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents: ANALYSIS / Would a weak Hamas or no Hamas be better in Gaza?
Talkback
Title:#1 Mark
Name:Turkish Jew
City: State:
You wrote that there is a certain parallelism between the situation of Hamas in Gaza now, and the situation of Germany after World War I. You are saying that just like the oppressive conditions imposed on the German people after WW I, later created a much more violent Germany that led to the WW II.
You are ONLY partially correct, but you are wrong in one area: THIS time, there is a big difference between the creation of the Third Reich mentality and the Hamas mentality. The extremist views of Hamas ALREADY existed long before Hamas was even called Hamas, and the desire to destroy Israel started as early as 1948, as soon as the United Nations decided to create Israel in much smaller borders than 1967. You are saying that a worse phoenix might rise from the ashes of Gaza, but this phoenix already existed in 1948, and when many surrounding Arab governments officially declared that they were coming here do execute every Jew. Hamas already had Third Reich mentality before this war.