No treating with terror
It is critical, then, not to grant a scrap of legitimacy to Hamas under its present leadership, for to do so would undermine Palestinian moderation, make it harder to forestall the development of terrorist training grounds in the West Bank, and might even produce a defeat for Israeli moderates in the upcoming Israeli election.
The world must not support Hamas simply because it was able to win the vote of a desperate people. The flow of funds from the United States and Europe should cease; it has long been unconscionable that so many millions of dollars have been spent to support terror and hate: Palestinian schools and media have never ceased inculcating hatred, sowing the poison from generation to generation.
Never again should the international community, including America, accept the perfidious notion that Palestinian terrorists are legitimate actors. As the saying goes, "Hell is truth seen too late."
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