[rightwingintelligentsia]

Further down in the article, this interesting quote:

He said that ideally Hamas would want the world to be an Islamic state, but practically speaking it wants a Palestinian state in all of mandatory Palestine.

[Publius6961]

"We didn't want this, we didn't hope for this. We wanted to be in the opposition," he said, speaking at a green-flagged, rabble-rousing victory rally in downtown Nablus. "Now all the responsibility is on us."

Does this sound familiar?

This would be hilarious were it not so tragic.
Of course it's easier to be the opposition!
It requires no brains, no restraint, no creativity, no respect for the truth, no grasp of reality, and the license to destroy.

Exactly like our liberal "progressive" party and its flying monkeys...

[boomop1]

The light of truth is foreign to these thugs, they will have a rough time getting the lies straight.

[Publius6961]

... practically speaking it wants a Palestinian state in all of mandatory Palestine.

Knowing that these clowns are both insane and delusional, what do you suppose that they mean by "madatory palestine"?

The original British mandate was intended to be equally divided between muslims and Jews.
The creation of Transjordan in 1921 completely destroyed the original intent, hence this "mandatory palestine" delusion is all the more puzzling.

[Gator101]

poor poor Hamas...they have gone from the security of being the peanut gallery to the ones who are looked to for actual leadership.

I am sure they will fail miserably.

[balk]

"We didn't want this, we didn't hope for this. We wanted to be in the opposition," he said, speaking at a green-flagged, rabble-rousing victory rally in downtown Nablus. "Now all the responsibility is on us."

A revealing statement.

Terrorists are, of course, not used to taking responsibility. A weasel pretending to be an elephant; no concept of order, stability or serving the people.

Hamas is an illegitimate government.

[JamesWilson]

Indeed, the security forces guarding hotels where foreign election observers stayed had long faces. "This is terrible," said one named Majdi. "Maybe Hamas will tell us to go to war."

Looking over at his colleagues, he asked "You guys ready for jihad?"

The line of young men in camouflage uniforms carrying assault rifles looked up at him blankly. "No man," said one. "No way."

LOL!!! It appears it's a lot more fun to talk about killing all the Jews than it is to actually try it.

[SOLTC]

It's easy to be the opposition.

But now, when Fatima comes to complain that the sewer is backing up, YOU have to figure out what to do.

[lilylangtree]

Time for Israel to retake their own land back in Gaza. And time for sending these trouble-making murderous palis to Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt or even Saudi Arabia.

[kimosabe31]

Jimmy carter tells us this was a free fair election. If hamass is the legitimate choice of the palestinians, have they not signed their own death warrant? Opting for murdering thuggery leadership leads to the abyss. These are the people our "political leaders" have been bailing out for decades with our money??