Ehud Olmert, the acting prime minister, made it clear after an emergency cabinet meeting that talks with Hamas, a Palestinian party sworn to Israel’s destruction, were out of the question, while experts said Israel was now freer to establish its future on its own.
They said Israel — whose own elections in two months could be heavily influenced by the Palestinian results — was likely to focus on speeding up construction of the separation barrier, which runs along and through parts of the West Bank. ” (New York Times )
I woke up this morning wondering how a Hamas government is ever going to convene in one room, given the likelihood that Israeli intelligence efforts would be devoted to finding out the place and time of such a gathering for — shall we say? — undiplomatic purposes.
