Senior Hamas official to Haaretz: Israel must negotiate with political Islam

MAKE NO MISTAKE; ALL HAMAS SPOKEMAN SPEAKE WITH FORKED TONGUE!!!!!!!

He's kidding right? He says that Israel will pay a "moral" price for combat in Gaza, in connection with a war that "Israel started"? This from an organization that routinely commits war crimes, whose follows dance in the streets when Israelis are killed, and he speaks of morality????

Listen to Arik Sharon's son, who says its time to Man Up. Gotta go down the line of this one. Hezbollah & Iran are strongly eyeballing the match. Deterrence is based on strength. Go in and REMOVE Hamas by force. Two options: (1) Force Gaza into Egypt, or (2) Return Gaza to Fatah. Time to Man Up, boys! By the way, lest anyone think I'm an arm chair cowboy, my family lives 3km from Gaza. Lock & load, I say.

We do NOT want muslim brotherhood here in the USA. Also, Israel has a right to defend itself. Haamas why don't you use your mouth and not rockets?

...plenty of texts with the fatah. They have never been respected. Therefore, what is the value of the signature of the so-called "Political Islam. That's only TAQYAH!!!

Once the thing is over, it will be interesting to learn why Hamas started firing all those rockets in the first place, knowing full well what the consequences would be. The Arab Spring and the Israeli elections were probably part of their considerations.

Lest we forget that Hamas was democratically elected by the people of Gaza to liquidate the Jews. What irks Hamas is that after centuries of killing Jews for sport all the way back to Mohammed, killing a jew now has deadly consequences. So make up your fairy tales of occupation and apartheid, we still remember long before modern Israe the mufti of Jerusalem walking with hitler in Berlin plotting the murder of Jews and British Christian soldiers. While teaching students in Gaza that killing a Christian is a ticket to heaven and how to beat your wife without marks, in Israel gays walk the streets freely and 1.5 millionarabs do not live in fear that collaboration gets them a sidewalk execution.

This is such a desperate plea from hamas. Arab leaders would legitimise a goat if it would serve their personal preferences. The fact is that between Iran and Syria they have orchestrated this entire situation to focus attention away from Syria and Iran itself. The population of gaza are expendable as far as Iran and Syria are concerned.

Israel has no other choices. Either to suffer an uncomfortable truce which will erupt regularly, or accept a real peace negotiation which so far they have never done.

and open up a dialogue with his Islamic group and recognize the significance of the Egyptian vote too. .This makes ultimate sense to me as the young multicultiralists are going to rule the roost in the coming years and I see this as a breath of fresh air-- so long overdue today.... In addition , did you know world leaders voted for Obama over Romney and so did American teens and teens around the world....So a new day is already out day happening and Ramhi is wise to encourage Israeli officials to reach out and embrace it too...How very wise, indeed! Dutch

When was Israel accepted in the arab sphere? I must have been asleep for that 5 minutes.

both side think wisely to Avoid war

Ah sorry I forgot you're a journalist. Have to be objective at all costs!

The comments here are.......can't find Words. First, NOBODY should die in this conflict. BUT, both sides have some Responsibility here. Israel still blockades Gaza. That is still the Root Problem. And the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves against the OPPRESSOR (Which Israel still is) as Israel has the right to shoot back at Rockets. So, where can we go from here ? You want no more Rockets: Stop the Assassinations and lift the Siege.

I really valued this - an interesting article that makes you think, which is hard to do clearly given the poundings or the war drums. Is Israeli losing it?

I must say that the iron dome is an amazing thing.

Israel wants supremacy instead of diplomacy our brothers our brothers are dying in ashklod and T A

Not one word about Hamas' "moral problem" targeting Israeli civilians. These guys live in a dream world. You have to start from the assumption that Israeli must be destroyed and work backwards to arrive at their conclusions.

Listen Dr. Ramhi, the only negotiations that Imperial Islam enters into are those where they expect the other party to acquiesce to the Islamists' final religious solution for all mankind. As far as you're concerned, Israel started this "war" by even daring to show up in their ancient land that has already been confiscated for Islamic pride and prejudice.

Nothing but another pro Palestinian terrorist propaganda piece. HAARETZ is nothing but a 4th rate political tool of the Arab and should be deleted from Israel.

I thought there were tons of supplies that crossed the border from Israel to Palestine every day. And I really don't like the tone of Ramhi's statements; "...Israel will pay a price - not in the material sense, but in the moral sense.", and ..."whether Israel will continue to exist or not..." Those are outrageous staements that have no basis in fact. It completely ignores the 1,500 rockets that have been lobbed at Israel since January 2012 by Hamas. Why? Just to poke Israel in the eye, again, and again, and again. Israel has been very tolerant of these hits, but Hamas really knows how to play to the media with false photos of the dead and injured, and corruption of the truth.

I say political islam must negotiate with Israel.

It is clear that Israel is losing this war because of incompetent political leadership. Yet the Israeli people are very much in support of the war effort. Israel is going mad; it is bereft of reason. For your own sake, get rid of Netanyahu.