Despite all the bombs and rockets, there has been a shift in Hamas discourse, from jihad (holy war) to hudna (truce). The founding charter still demands all of historic Palestine - "from the river to the sea" - but there is acceptance of the 1967 Green Line as the border in a two-state solution. The target is the Israeli occupation, not Judaism.
"Ask Barak," Malley wrote, "and he might volunteer that there was no Israeli offer and, besides, Arafat rejected it. Ask Arafat, and the response you might hear is that there was no offer; besides, it was unacceptable; and that said, it had better remain on the table."
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