Hamas Victory – Preliminary Thoughts on Reactions

Memo to the Right: Let’s have a a little less gloating, shall we? Yes, of course you’ve been correctly saying for years that the Palestinian public is becoming more and more radical. Yes, you’ve been accurately skeptical for the last few months about the possibility of Hamas’s moderation. But celebrating bad news just because you knew it was coming is what the other side is supposed to do.
Memo to the Left: when everyone on the Right was saying that the Oslo process would empower terrorists, this isn’t exactly what they meant. They meant that it would empower the terrorist Fatah organization, who would then raise a generation of Palestinians who would end up supporting even more widespread and genocidal terrorism. So on second thought, it is kind of what they meant. Maybe some introspection about this whole moderation thing is due.