Gaza Crisis Complicates U.S. Peace Efforts (Reuters Africa)

...Several Middle East experts said the United States was naive in believing it could ignore Hamas.

"Wishing Gaza away will not work," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator now with the New America Foundation.

"You have to somehow have an arrangement that does not exclude Hamas and invite them to be the spoiler. If you don't do that, the elephant will keep sticking its trunk out the room and the room will get smashed apart," he said. ...