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I agree that US and Israeli policy in regards to Hamas was wrong.
Pillars of democracy tried to undermine the results of what was universally accepted to be a free and fair election. The math of that equation never leads to a sound solution. We've seen this time and again. Invariably the results are perverse.
But that said, it doesn't lead me to the conclusion that more tolerant US and Israeli policies would have led to the peaceful moderation of the Hamas party. I think the extremism that certainly does exist within Hamas bears heavily on the equation. So much so that it's equally conceivable that the moderation of the Hamas party would have led to the same factional violence only within the party itself.
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