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It's near impossible to live in this century and boycott Israeli products. Kleenex anyone? Vaccination for bird flue? Instant Messaging?


Well at least now we know the majority of Palestinians really want peace. The upside is the argument that without the corruption of Fatah, there could be some progress. The downside is if you're a liberal, gay, feminist or religious moderate Palestinian, life just got that much worse. Fatah were no different, in their goals or track record. This is just a replay of the legitamization of Arafat & Fatah - only this time a lot more people are informed, and aware of how problematic this is. (Fatah had a candidate running who went by the nickname "Hitler" by the way). At least in this case, it sounds like Hamas won the democratic way.

On a side note, a couple days before the elections, Netenyahu said he would continue to make "comprimise", and likely return land.

geggy - Not to wind you up, but Hamas started as a social organization, and at one point did receive assistance from Israel for a short time,(as have literally EVERY other Palestinian organization) in hopes they could support what they hoped would be moderate Palestinians. This was back in the 80's when Socialists were pushing for negotiations of some sort. That was one of the experiments they tried. It was a mistake.