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Article: Clarity.(THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY)(Hamas)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 27, 2006
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HAMAS has defeated Fatah in the Palestinian elections, and nobody can be sure what happens now in that unhappy corner of the world. Give them the vote, pessimists groan, and look how they use it: to put into power terrorists whose program is to team up with the crazies in Iran and wipe out Israel. It would have been better to cancel the election altogether, they continue, or at least to forbid Hamas from running. So the peace process is over--the Palestinians evidently prefer suicide to constructing a state.
Polls in fact regularly show that a majority of Palestinians are fed up with self-inflicted misery and would choose peace with Israel if they could. They ...