In his latest column, The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland calls on Israel to engage Hamas, comparing the Palestinian terror group to the IRA:
In the end, it comes down to how you view peace processes. Do you believe that the enemy is only fit to take part in a negotiation once it has changed, or that the very act of taking part can change the enemy? The Israeli government believes the former. After the transformation of the IRA in the decade or more of Good Friday talks – from swearing it would never decommission a bullet to standing down its forces – I believe the latter.
Memo to Freedland: The IRA could afford to be flexible. It never dedicated itself to the destruction of neighboring Britain.
