Now this is a step in the right direction for Hamas' thinking.

A senior member of Hamas has broken a taboo by calling on Palestinians to stop blaming Israel for all their ills and look instead at their own failures.

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"The anarchy, chaos, pointless murders, the plundering of lands, family feuds … what do all of these have to do with the occupation?" he asked in the opinion piece published in the Palestinian newspaper, al-Ayyam. "We have always been accustomed to pinning our failures on others, and conspiratorial thinking is still widespread among us."

This is long overdue.... I hope the guy lives to see the end of the week, though I don't think his chances can be too good.

Interestingly enough, this comes in the same week as Hassan Nasrallah's admission of guilt for starting the Lebanon Hostage-War. He even admits that the violence was caused by his own mis-calculation: "You ask me, if I had known on July 11... that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not."

Both events are steps toward coming to terms with reality. If people can come to terms with the fact that Israel is not "The Great Satan", and that Hezbollah was in fact acting in the interests of Iran and Syria (and NOT Lebanon) - it may open their eyes to what really needs to change in the region. Maybe there is hope afterall.

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