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Has to be a swift kick in the junk to the Super Patriots in Washington when a terrorist group wins a legitimate election to gain power.

The War Against Terror!

I've said it before and I'll say it again - there's the debil you know (Arafat) and the debil you don't know (Abu Hamsa)

Arafat sailed as close to the wind with Hammas as he could without them removing his ears at the waist.


Hamsa made the noises Washington wanted to hear despite clearly having little grass-roots credibility on the streets of Gaza and West Bank. The west supported Israel's removal of Arafat and will now be diverting vital resources from fighting Iranian insurgents in Iraq to a whole world of fan-cleaning in Palestine.

Go Condy!!!


PS - I fu[i][/i]cking told you so

Cause it was a triple-dog-dare?

The Dems in the U.S. should take this opportunity to redefine their platform. Promise of public beheadings could be just what they need to grab those undecided elusive southern and midwestern votes.

Before, we had to limit our operations against Hamas. Now we can declare war on them and their nation in response to aggression.

Ahahahhaa declare war on Palastine.

Good one.

Iran's just taking a cue from North Korea. We've not acted decisively enough with respect to halting the advance of future nuclear powers (didn't with India, didn't with Pakistan, haven't with NK) and everybody knows that The Bomb is a pretty awesome bargaining chip. If you make one, you get to join the nuclear club and pretend like you're a badass. If you're trying to make one, people will give you things to make you stop. It's really win-win until we head in and start killing people over this.



We don't even have to bother. Israel can declare war for us in response to continued suicide attacks. They're the ones on the scene and the ones most directly affected by terrorism; now they have a neighbor with a government to do war upon, rather than having to make vague attempts at protecting the Palestinian citizenry that was tacitly under their authority.

They're their own people now with their own bit of land. They've got their own government. Fu[/b]ck 'em. If they want to keep being as[b]sholes, fine and well, but the jews have a long track record of winning wars against the arabs. (With our support, of course.)

I'd be thrilled to see the Hamas-heavy government take up the cry of "let's all push Israel into the sea woo yay" again, and mobilize the people to that effect. That'd work real well, particularly with a large American army to the east and tons of special forces active in the area.

Woot Hamas!

Hey, here's a couple of political slogans they can use for the future.

"A Chicken in Every Pot, A Suicide Bomber on Every Bus! "

Intifada 2006: "The 'Blow' Up With People Party"!


I actually voted against the mass-extermination of the Jews before I voted for it.

Nostalgic for Vest-Bomb Martyrdom? Vote Hamas!

We don't even have to bother. Israel can declare war for us in response to continued suicide attacks. They're the ones on the scene and the ones most directly affected by terrorism; now they have a neighbor with a government to do war upon, rather than having to make vague attempts at protecting the Palestinian citizenry that was tacitly under their authority.

They're their own people now with their own bit of land. They've got their own government. **** 'em. If they want to keep being ********, fine and well, but the jews have a long track record of winning wars against the arabs. (With our support, of course.)


Not to get to comlex here, but if Isreal formally declared war on Palastine (as opposed to running women and children over with tanks occasioanlly) it would completely legitimise Iran's nuclear program.

Not going to happen.

Sweet sweet irony..

Maybe the people in Palestine don't view the Hamas as a terrorist organization but as a liberator from constant years of indirect and direct US oppression?

Way to once again misrespresent and rape the meaning of a word inserted in a politically fabricated context gbaji.

Edited, Thu Jan 26 21:43:23 2006 by Meeko

Eh? No fabrication involved at all. Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization. Just as the PLO was until (IIRC) 1987. Both happen to *also* be political organizations as well. It's entirely possible for people to support the political agenda of Hamas without necessarily supporting the terrorist attacks performed by its more militant members. In *exactly* the same way someone living in Belfast might support the IRA without necessarily supporting terrorist attacks performed by that body.

Get it? Making a parallel here. One can certainly argue persuasively that the movement from bombs to politics on the part of the IRA (despite what you might personally think of Mr. Adams) has lead to productive movement with regards to terrorism in Ireland. One could draw the parallel that this level of legitimacy by Hamas will force it to act as a political organization first and hopefully over time distance itself from terrorism.

There's no way to know for sure. Terrorism is incredibly prone to institutionalism. What starts out as a fight for specific social/political goals often becomes very very hard to stop as those organizations grow and begin to be filled with members who don't care about the cause as much as the power they gain by having that cause. In an interesting twist, most groups like that eventually spin off to the point where they don't want the social issues addressed and fixed because then they have no reason to exist anymore and they percieve that as a loss of power. We've certainly seen this time and again both with Irish and Palestinian terrorism.


As I stated earlier. It's much too early to say definatively whether this is a good or bad thing in the long run.