Yesterday I blasted Bush for the naive hope that Hamas' potential inclusion in a PA government would mollify the blood-thirsty Jew-killers.
Today, the President said that "Hamas cannot be partner for Middle East peacemaking without renouncing violence, and he reiterated that the United States will not deal with Palestinian leaders who do not recognize Israel's right to exist," according to the AP story linked above. This is the correct position, at minimum, and would force Hamas to change its nature -- after all, it's sine qua non position is that Israel must be destroyed.
And Condoleeza Rice also sounded a good note when she told the Davos Forum (aka the World Economic Conference) that "'you cannot have one foot in politics and another in terror.'"
Let's hope the Administration sticks to its words on this.
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