For this reason he proposes negotiation, even with diplomatic untouchables such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
Violence has pushed him closer to the radicals, such as Hamas, whose membeers have attended recent cabinet meetings.
The stark, simple ideology of groups such as Hamas also raises their appeal.
More junior politicians, such as Hamas mayors, will sometimes go further and admit that Hamas will have to recognise Israel eventually.
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Many of the leaders of Palestinian Islamist groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, are either medical doctors, engineers or university professors.
Its support for terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah is unabated.
Other militant groups, such as Hamas (the main Islamist party) and the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (a secular Fatah offshoot), make similar demands.
In the long term, therefore, Israel's reluctance to accept the existing Green Line in some ways plays into the hands of militant Islamist groups such as Hamas.
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But the fact that peace process rejectionists such as Hamas and Hezbollah now have such extensive means of hitting Israeli cities is the more important strategic development.
Earlier this year America imposed mild trade sanctions, threatening worse unless Syria ended its quarter-century-old military presence in Lebanon and ceased all aid to groups such as Hamas.
Climbing down would make Israel look weak both to Hizbullah and to other foes who need to be deterred, such as Hamas today and, possibly, a nuclear-armed Iran tomorrow.
For example, while the United States criticizes Iranian support for terrorist organization such as Hamas and Hezbollah, Iranians talk about U.S. support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Another new organisation called Conflicts Forum, founded by a former British intelligence officer, Alastair Crooke, attempts to serve as an interlocutor between militant Islamist groups, such as Hamas and Hizbullah, and the West.
The lumping of groups such as Hamas and Hizbullah into the same camp as al-Qaeda has jarred with the Arab view of them as freedom fighters, whose cause, if not always their methods, is legitimate.
With him died the monopoly on power both inside Fatah, where a committee will have to approve the new cabinet, and outside it, where groups such as Hamas see a chance to capitalise on their popularity.
An Iran at peace with America might abandon its nuclear ambitions, stop calling for the dissolution of Israel and end its support for groups such as Hamas in Palestine and Hizbullah in Lebanon, which also want Israel destroyed.
In the cost-benefit calculus, Iran's rulers have already judged it worth building the secret enrichment plant near Qom, worth doing sanctions-busting arms deals with nuclear-testing North Korea and worth continuing to support and train terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
Islamists gleefully interpreted the word literally, and the impression that America intended to clash with the civilisation of Islam as a whole was reinforced by Mr Bush's branding as terrorists groups, such as Hizbullah and Hamas, that many Muslims saw as legitimate political parties.
It's the principal paymaster of such extremist forces as Hamas and Hezbollah.
He has also supported Iran- mentored groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas in their war against Israel, and, has helped Iran avoid sanctions by facilitating its banking system.
Despite the Assad regime's much-vaunted "resistance" to Israel, its sponsorship of militant groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and its alliance with Iran, Israeli leaders have been divided over whether the survival of the "devil they know" would be preferable to the uncertainties of regime change and the possibility, however remote, of a radical Islamist takeover.
Already, prominent international terror groups such as al-Qaida and Hamas operate extensively in Africa, while lesser-known but nevertheless dangerous groups have emerged to wage jihad south of the Sahara.
Indeed, America's enemies are best able to harm the United States by engaging in clandestine weapons deals that enable organizations such as Al-Qaeda and Hamas to inflict staggering casualties.
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Already, prominent international terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and Hamas operate extensively in Africa, while lesser known but nevertheless dangerous groups have emerged to wage jihad south of the Sahara.
Instead of upholding the unity government through peaceful democratic measures such as negotiation and arbitration, Hamas has instead resorted to violence in a bid to oust Fatah from the Gaza Strip.
It's hard to know whether it is of any concern to UNRWA that one of the conduits headlined by Ban Ki-moon for its Gaza relief appeal is a U.S.-censured bank, headquartered in a country that hosts Hamas leaders such as Meshal, and is designated by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism.
These two leaders are close allies with Iran, and with terror organizations such as the FARC, Hezbollah, Hamas and leaders of rogue nations.
UNRWA's choice of this bank is all the more curious in light of the lifestyle choices of a number of Hamas leaders, such as Khaled Meshal, who are based not in Gaza, but work "in exile" in Damascus.
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