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...Democrats, or as a Californian friend said last year, “girlie-men.” But with last week’s announcements that General Motors lost $8.6 billion in 2005, that the radical terrorist group Hamas won a majority of seats in the democratically elected Palestinian government, and that Iran will continue its march towards a nuclear bomb, America must come to the realization that its future is not inherently rosy...
Finally, I must address Iraq and the overall situation in the Middle East. With last week’s election of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, columnists have been quick to cite the adage, “Be careful what you wish for–you might just...
...politically incorrect, and also inaccurate, to use the loaded phrase "clash of civilizations" to describe big stuff like the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the burgeoning international conflict over a series of cartoons in a provincial Danish newspaper caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad seems to fit the term with depressing accuracy. It's a case of the hard-fought right to free expression banging up against Muslims' conviction that states ought to punish anyone who insults the Prophet. And so far, all the protagonists appear ready to ride their principles to Armageddon...
DANIEL PIPES Director of the Middle East Forum The Hamas victory will have the largest impact not in relations with Israel, where its goals and those of its predecessor Fatah resemble each other, but in two other arenas. Within the Palestinian Authority, Hamas will run a very different show from the anarchic, corrupt, sloppy dictatorship bequeathed by Yasser Arafat. Expect to see a far stricter, more religious, more disciplined order, with Fatah members, including Mahmoud Abbas, sidelined and probably repressed...
...This is what happens in a democratic system. We've been saying for a long time the Palestinian Authority was rotten through and through. And the people knew it and got rid of them the minute they had the opportunity...