And the Leftist Apologizing Has Already Begun!

Posted on Sun, Jan. 29, 2006
For many Palestinians, Hamas vote was more anti-Fatah
By Michael Matza
Inquirer Staff Writer

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Rimal is one of Gaza's better neighborhoods, though you wouldn't call it posh. Its broken roads, tattered storefronts, and graffiti-splashed walls are just a cut above the dreary standard here.

On a street named Charles de Gaulle to honor a visit years ago by Jacques Chirac, elementary school math teacher Mahdi Brahim Kumssan, 43, lives with his wife, Mona, and their eight children, ages 4 to 17.

A lifelong supporter of the Fatah movement, which helped put Palestinian nationalism on the map, Kumssan bolted his party in the recent parliamentary election to vote for its bitter rival, the Islamic resistance movement Hamas. Droves of protest voters did the same, handing Fatah a stinging defeat.

TrekMedic muses:

Its amazing that just a few days after the Palestinians pushed the world closer to a nuclear Armeggedon, the MSM is already trying to spin the vote as anything but what is was: A rebuke of any pro-Western, peaceful solution to the Middle East's problems and a furthering of al Qaeda's war on the West!