(10-16-2023, 02:49 PM)mikesez Wrote: People forget that the PLO began as a terror organization that would never recognize Israel.  But over time, they moderated and now they only have the ambition to govern their areas.  Israeli elite consensus has been that Hamas would eventually do the same thing.  The elites felt that the hard work of actually governing always moderates the views of radicals.  It certainly sometimes makes radicals more moderate, but, not always.  Not when the radicals are actually pawns of another, larger state.