Yet, despite history’s long train of failures, Hamas’s June 2007 seizure of control of Gaza, and its pariah status in the West, we are repeatedly told by the US that 2008 will be the year of a peace agreement. Meanwhile, the Arab peace proposal, which calls for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders and a fair solution to the refugee problem in exchange for normalization of Arab states’ relations with Israel, appears doomed.
然而，尽管有历史上一系列的失败，哈马斯在2007年6月对加沙的控制以及它在西方世界中的无赖的地位，美国仍然不停的告诉我们2008年是缔结和平协定的一年。同时，要求按照1967年边界建立巴勒斯坦国和以公平解决难民问题换取阿拉伯国家和以色列关系正常化的阿拉伯和平建议看起来也前景不妙。