I wish we could just leave the situation as a tragicomic joke, but unfortunately, nilhism and murderous rage despoils, ne obliterates neighboring areas, so we can’t just have a private, cynical laugh at the situation. People will die because the Palestinians in Gaza got “the government they deserve”, and violence will merely shoot up again. But then, what can be done? Even now, at this stage, too few see how cancerous Hamas and general Palestinian violence is, and merely want to blame the west for “failed policies”. A blame that is oddly factually true yet spiritually false in that it places primary responsibility for the policy failures in the west, and not in the hands of the locals, where it so richly belongs.

Meh… the snort I give at Hamas taking Gaza has no humor behind it. Well, as someone on another blog (Michael Totten’s, I think?…) pointed out: At least Hamas is honest. They don’t dissemble about wanting war. For what little comfort that lesser evil gives…

So, now that a state of emergency has been called and a new government is to be formed, Hamas is left looking like it might have chewed off more than it could eat. Let’s hope.

The relationship between Hamas and Iran is very troubling and I doubt if the Israelis will be willing to tolerate that for long.