Another leader of Hamas is affirming his group's stance regarding Israel...they want it destroyed.

Meanwhile, is it possible that the Jews of 2006 are as blind and stupid as the Jews of the 1930s(the "when a political party says it wants to exterminate you, you should believe them" rule of human relations)? This man-on-the-street article from inside Israel makes me wonder if history might repeat itself.

Some Palestinians are realizing that the secular state of their dreams is fading into an Islamist nightmare.

The Belmont Club is predicting, as I have, that the international community, and maybe even the Israeli government, will continue to fund the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

On Iran, Robert Kagan says its all about regime change, stupid. In San Antonio, Jonathan Gurwitz wonders why people want to ignore insane leaders, rather than taking them at face value, and responding accordingly.

In dealing with Iran and Hamas, too many Western leaders, and their populations, are falling into the same trap that Western leaders and peoples fell into in the 1930s. The face of the threat is so seemingly unreasonable and barbaric, that it can't really be true, can it? If we just ignore them, or treat them as if their unreasonable and barbaric statements were just rhetoric, the crisis will pass and we will enjoy "peace in our time".