Free Republic

Hamas' victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections is already being sanitized by the politically correct, despite the terrorist group's bloody track record and its fallacious and dubious historical claims to the land of Israel. Thankfully, some Western leaders are condemning the selection of murderers by Palestinians for their government. At the top of a BBC article yesterday regarding the Hamas terrorist group winning Palestinian elections: The win poses problems for efforts to restart peace talks with Israel, say analysts. Israel insists it will not deal with an authority including Hamas. So this is all just Israel's problem/fault because the majority of...

WASHINGTON - Iraq got something almost right yesterday. Mohammed Aldouri, its ambassador to the United Nations, looked at the resolution passed unanimously by a 15-0 vote of the Security Council, and said: "This is the will of the United States on the rest of the world." Actually the resolution, which leaves Washington enough latitude to launch a military strike to disarm and remove Saddam Hussein, is not the will only of the United States, but also of Britain, Italy, Spain, Kuwait, Qatar and several other nations that are responsible enough to support action to defang the Mesopotamian pariah. But even...