News of the peaceful

Hamas has won the Palestinian election and left the rest of the world with the embarassing problem of dealing with a democratically elected terrorist government. The world leaders decided to deal with the problem by publicly expressing hope that it will go away, that is that Hamas will stop being a terrorist organization. Hamas proudly declared that it would continue being a terrorist organization until Israel is liberated of Israelis, leaving the world leaders in a state of continuous embarassment, as well as being unsure whether or not aiding Palestinians would from now on constitute giving money to terrorists.

The world leaders can console themselves by the fact that there are people who are or at least should be even more embarassed: Islamic Jihad, who will continue to be a terrorist organization without the benefit of holding most of the seats in the Legislative Council at the same time, and neocons, who still maintain that forcibly exporting democracy to the Middle East is a good thing.

One thing I am wondering about: every time the old Palestinian authority tried to mooch money off EU, US, or whoever would listen, they would whine "but please! that's not us! we asked the mean terrorists to stop and they keep carrying on!". What exactly will Hamas come up with? "Please! It's not us! It's the other parts of our split personalities! we need that money to buy Haldol!"