CNN "Hamas claims full control of Gaza": "Fighters from the Islamic party Hamas claimed full control of Palestinian Authority security agencies in Gaza late Thursday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved his unity government and declared a state of emergency."
Over a year ago, the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby noted that there's nary a difference between "good" Fatah and "bad" Hamas:
Like Hamas, Fatah -- the PLO faction Abbas and Arafat co-founded 45 years ago -- advocates Israel's destruction in its basic charter. Like Hamas, Fatah has an ''armed wing" -- the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- that is guilty of horrific terror attacks. Fatah's emblem shows crossed rifles against a map of ''Palestine" that depicts all of Israel; on the Hamas emblem, the map is the same, but the crossed weapons are swords. The only important difference between the ousted Fatah party and the incoming Hamas leadership is that for PR purposes the former sometimes pretended to accept Israel's right to exist, while the latter is openly and unabashedly committed to Israel's elimination.World keeps on spinnin'
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Good news: the surge is working!
Bad news: not ours, though.
As long as Bush is firing US Attorneys and his administration is outing undercover CIA agents for political gain, we shouldn't be quick to judge oppressed minority cultures. If you were drowning in violence and misery like they are, then you might be more understanding.
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