US Elite Leader Endorses Hamas Peace Plan

We have no right to tell the Palestinians whom they can and cannot elect to represent them. Hamas is not only engaged in acts of violence against Israel. They help the Muslim community in many ways.

I abhor violence, especially acts of terrorism against ordinary cirizens of any country. It brings out the absolute worst in people. Surely, we can all see that by now.

Those who hold the guns of war in their hands at this moment are murderers, either in fact, or potentially.

War has been all but outlawed.

We must enforce those laws!

US Elite Leader Endorses Hamas Peace Plan:

Before the Israelis started dropping bombs on Lebanon, they should have taken a moment to remember what an old general, Dwight Eisenhower, once said. When you start a war there's only one thing for certain: Things won't turn out the way you planned.

Israel is learning that one the hard way. It was supposed to destroy Hezbollah as a meaningful political force, and Hamas was supposed to fall with it. (While Israelis have been killing well over 500 in Lebanon, they've also been busy in Gaza, killing over 130 people in the last two weeks.) But things are turning out far different from what Israel intended.

It's not just a matter of Hezbollah remaining intact and well-armed. The bombs that shattered Lebanon may also have shattered the Middle East playing field and created startling new bedfellows. Who would ever have expected to see a top figure in the US foreign policy elite endorsing the views of the top elected officials of Hamas?

Yet that's just what happened on Sunday, July 30. The Washington Post's editorial board (about as elite as our media get) gave space on their op-ed page to Brent Scowcroft, a long-time pillar of the foreign policy establishment who was national security advisor for both the current President Bush's father and President Ford.