Tag Hamas

Obama prepared to talk to Hamas

Incoming administration will abandon Bush’s isolation of Islamist group to initiate low-level diplomacy, say transition sources. Reality and sanity is returning to D.C. What a welcome change that will be.

Hamas provokes, Israel over-reacts

Getting tiresome, isn’t it? There will be more funerals on both sides, more maimed and crippled noncombatants, grief-stricken mothers and widows. Harry’s Place says that while Hamas goaded Israel into responding, what they got in return was way more violent…