Michael Rubin (@mrubin1971) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog.
Hamas may be a terrorist group, but for decades, Israel and the wider world have treated it as a fact of life. John Kerry visited the group as a senator, prior to becoming secretary of state. So, too, did many European officials. The Turkish parliament gave Hamas leader Khaled Meshal a rousing ovation during his 2006 visit to Ankara. Today, Qatar competes with Turkey to shower funds and support on the group whose charter calls for the extermination of Jews.
Those days are over, but is it possible for Israel to eliminate Hamas, or must Israel settle for simply mowing the grass a little lower? Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s willingness to encourage a ceasefire in talks with his Turkish counterpart suggests key elements within the Biden administration see Hamas as a reality. Prior to leading the charge for unconditional rapprochement with Iran, Biden’s former Iran special envoy Robert Malley openly advocated engagement with Hamas.
I have written before about how Jordan expelled wholesale the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1970, expelling PLO rank and file to Lebanon. In 1983, history repeated when Lebanese forces in conjunction with multinational peacekeepers expelled PLO leaders to Tunis. The sheer size of the Hamas presence in the Gaza Strip makes the problem exponentially greater to resolve.
In 1979, Vietnam ended the nightmare and overran the Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia’s recovery was not easy. After Vietnam ousted the Khmer Rouge, Hanoi sponsored a People’s Republic of Kampuchea to fill the vacuum. While the Soviet bloc and India threw their support behind the new regime, the United Nations did not. Only in 1993 did the U.N. sponsor elections for a new government. The Khmer Rouge, meanwhile, continued its insurgency through the end of the century.
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