So I doubt highly if we’ll see any real change in Hamas’ activities. What we may see are attacks coordinated with political activities, and more targetted attacks, meant to engage Israel in whatever ngotiations or activities best serve Hams’ interests at the time. But have we really seen the transformation of Hamas, the movement from a terrorist group to a political group? It would be nice, but I doubt it hightly.

So it is no more than an election ploy.

By the way, Hamas really does a lot of social work – it works for them exceedingly well, on the background of Arafat/Abu Mazen impotence in everything social.

some Palestinian analysts believe will make it difficult for Hamas to return to a sustained violent campaign.

So they will employ the help of Islamic Jihad or one of the other groups, a ploy used several times in the past year by al Aqsa, Islamic Jihad and fatah’s other splinters.
They will supply the funding and intel and the other group/s will collect the “kudos”!

After Arafat’s lies and obfuscations can people still be so gullible?

Hamas does social work and Tookie Williams wrote stories for children.