Can Hamas Survive?

What is clear is that Hamas cannot survive under the following two circumstances:

1. Ongoing suspension of International Aid.
2. Ongoing civil strife between warring factions.

So what needs to be understood is how can these two situations be resolved in order to give the Palestinian people a chance of real peace and stability in order to work and build towards self sufficiency and common unity of altruistic hope.

There are arguments aht why should aid be given to nation who want to destroy us in the west and themselves in their own land? and why indeed should it's withdrawal be considered a punishment? Who has the right to decide that certain people or countries have a right to western aid. Personally I would not offer money to someone who happily declares he is my enemy.

Freedom is about choice. All choices have consequences. Democracy provides a forum to make choices. Freedom demands one accept responsibility for the consequences of choice. Currently the Palestinian people have elected a body by their own volition, a body that has and still does promise only violence. Certainly people are responsible for their own actions and in a democracy this starts with their vote.

It's time for the Palestinians to stop considering themselved victims of Israel or of USA, stop crying about what others aren't giving/doing. Stand up and claim responsibility. That is true freedom.

The Palestinians must understand the consequences of their vote, and the consequences of continued violence.

In Judaism we say the reward of a sin is a sin and the reward of a miztvah (good deed) is another mitzvah. Therefore in the contemporary world the reward of violent talk is violent action and the reward of peaceful words is peaceful action.

Its time for the Palestinians to begin talking peace and renouncing violence, its time they gace it a try.