Hamas has said 'no' to peace with Israel and 'no' to renouncing their goal of destroying Israel.
Their stance has guaranteed that the bloodshed will continue.
Except now, the Palestinians are moving toward a civil war, so Palestinians will be killing each other in addition to the Israelis, who will continue striking back wherever and whenever they can.
The Palestinians fell victim to groupthink; the ruling Fatah party was widely seen as being corrupt, and the Palestinians voted for Hamas's platform of clean government, even though they didn't support the rest of Hamas's stated goals and ambitions.
Voting for a candidate on a single issue is extremely unwise; this is true anywhere in the world, including here. Here's an example of this kind of groupthink:
A candidate's stated goal is to change the U.S. flag, but is also a crime lord who has murdered politicians, judges and ordinary people for supporting strong laws against crime and against changing the Pledge of Allegience and the U.S. flag.
Johnny Voter and many like him decide to vote for the crime lord candidate because they don't like the current U.S. flag either. They ignore the crime lord's stand on abortion, gun control, the death penalty, taxes, and everything else because of the U.S. flag issue. This is in spite of the fact that they totally disagree with the candidate on his views of the issues mentioned above.
That's exactly what the Palestinian voters did. And now the entire peace process is in chaos because of their shortsightedness.
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