A moral obligation for the West to talk with Hamas.
Chris McGreal outlines the crisis facing Hamas as it attempts to find a way of resolving the standoff in Gaza.
Eventually, with aid cut off and no hope of negotiations, Hamas will revert to terror and the third intifada will begin.
Free elections then returned a Hamas government in the Palestinian territories.
Gaza 1 6 Hamas suspected in elevator blast that kills a bodyguard.
Hamas made sweeping gains in these elections last year which prepared the way for its election victory last week.
Hamas may have won power democratically, but it seeks the creation of a global Islamic theocracy under Shari'a law.
In its charter, Hamas calls for a global jihad -- like the suicide bombings last year in London, the city I represent.
Jewish fundamentalism and the settlers movement needs Hamas and Islamic Jihad and vise versa.
Looking at Hamas websites, this very month, one finds Saudi clerics prominently featured as providing the religious justification for suicide bombings.
Meanwhile, the Israel-Palestine and the Israel-Lebanon problem fires radicalism further, and gives electoral success to Hamas and Hezbollah.
Running under the name " Change and Reform ", Hamas highlighted the rampant corruption of the PA and promised a clean-up.
The Hamas leader was fatally wounded in a helicopter gunship attack on his car on Saturday.
The whole Hamas government project is now in real jeopardy.
These charges about Saudi Arabia bankrolling Hamas have become even more vociferous in recent years.
This forced Hamas to look at the possibility of entering the political process.