A striking observation by an Israeli interlocutor raises a different question: what if Hamas is not operating at the level of articulated, responsive communication we assume? This essay considers the implications of that gap.

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On Communication with Hamas

What appears to be dialogue may not function as such

I have not been able to relocate the exact source, but a recent remark attributed to an Israeli expert who had direct contact with Hamas has stayed with me because of how striking it was. He described being genuinely shocked—not only by the intransigent and demanding tone, which one expects—but by something much more basic: the way Hamas communicated. What struck him was how limited and poorly developed their expression seemed. They struggled, so to speak, to put two words together in any coherent, responsive way. And this raised a disturbing question: how........

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