Qual Hamas?

Leader, The Guardian

Hamas's election manifesto did not repeat the call of its charter for the destruction of the Jewish state. It has been disciplined enough to largely observe a year-long ceasefire and has hinted it may continue that indefinitely. Its electoral triumph probably owes less to its resistance to occupation - an unequal struggle against Israeli F16's, Hellfire missiles and targeted assassinations - than to its demand for clean hands and delivery.
(...) Had Hamas won just a few ministerial seats in a powersharing cabinet dominated by Fatah, the tension between politics and resistance could have been hard to resolve.
(..) Victory for Hamas is a Middle Eastern earthquake that may bring new opportunities to the immense task of building peace between two peoples who have been fighting for far too long in the same small country.

El poder es de Hamás, Editorial, El Pais

Presumiblemente, para los radicales islamistas se acaba el tiempo de la retórica y llega el de las decisiones difíciles. Hamás sabe que su capacidad para gobernar la vida de los palestinos de modo tolerable depende tanto de sus relaciones con Israel como de la implicación occidental y de su ayuda económica. Hamás, que ha sembrado de cadáveres Israel con sus atentados suicidas, ha sido bastante escrupuloso en el último año en su observancia de la frágil tregua pactada por Abbas. Los tiempos que vienen exigen calma y contención, y no cabe descartar que el pragmatismo acabe imponiéndose y que verdades consideradas ahora teológicas acaben disolviéndose en una prédica sin graves consecuencias prácticas.