While many people seek to rationalize last week's landslide by Hamas so that it conforms to their own agenda, the Palestinian people are not children. They do not need their supporters to interpret their actions for them. They know exactly what they are doing.
Regardless of fanciful explanations unsupported by any factual evidence, the Palestinians did not merely repudiate Fatah. They embraced Hamas wholeheartedly. Give them credit. They found a party that represents their aspirations and they supported it. If that makes some of their less overtly bloodthirsty apologists uncomfortable, so be it.
Self-serving blatherings about Fatah corruption or Gaza unilateralism aside, here is the agenda that the Palestinians have made their official governing philosophy. Justify it if you will by blaming the evil Jews/neocons, but somewhere Adolf Hitler is rejoicing:
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