Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details. However, many analysts remain pessimistic after five months of stop-start talks that have frequently broken down

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    6 months ago

    Yeah you should probably trust those figures instead of rolling with your own head cannon of what you want things to be. I don’t see anything in the methods that are particularly suspect, do you?

    You need to be open to a reality where the Palestinian people support Hamas because historically, they have. It also shows in polling. Keep in mind the fact that there haven’t been elections in Palestine for as long as there have , is part of a strategy by Israel and the US to delegitimize Hamas.

    Like, think about your sentiment for a moment. Your basically arguing that Palestine picked wrong and the occupying, colonial settler project know better who should lead the Palestineian people than the Palestinian people.

    You are either in favor of democracy, and you work with whom people elect because that’s how it works, or you are against democracy. You can’t really have it both ways.

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      6 months ago

      The people they picked don’t even live there and do little but embezzle funds… Of course they picked “wrong”. I am in favor of democracy and I don’t think what’s happening now in Gaza is democratic at all.

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          If you genuinely believe that a group voted in 18 years ago who don’t live in the country and haven’t held an election since then can be considered a legitimate government, we’re never going to see eye to eye on this.

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            And who is stopping the Palestineian people from holding another election?

            Like you don’t seem to notice how deep in the paint you are regarding both US and Israelli propaganda on this issue.