Little Green Footballs yesterday hailed the arrival of an “Islamic utopia” to the Gaza strip, and also noted that the “fortress-like ‘Preventive Security’ building in Gaza that was stormed and overtaken by Hamas today, amid a hail of gunfire and horrific murder, is apparently going to be converted into a mosque.” Perfect.

The NY Post reacts today to the establishment of what it calls “Hamas-istan.”

It’s apparently all over in Gaza save for the mopping up: Hamas has won a substantial victory over the forces of Fatah, and while the outcome shifts the regional security balance in a dangerous direction, it also brings clarity to the picture in that blood-soaked corner of the Middle East.

This could be a good thing.

With Hamas in control of Gaza and the official breakup of the Hamas-Fatah unity government, it’s no longer possible to pretend that Israel has a reasonable partner with which to negotiate.

That was never anything but a fiction, of course, but now that Hamas has promised to set up an Islamist rump-state (doubtless with the aid of its Iranian masters), it’s clear that war-war has won out over jaw-jaw.

So be it.

The confrontation between the old guard PLO type thugs and murderers and the new guard of Islamist thugs and murderers was a long time building, and its inevitability was clear enough. No doubt it is best to get the inevitable out of the way, in order to clear the way for the possible — whatever that might be. Perhaps the next time the Palestinian people get a chance to vote in an election — if there is a next time in the forseeable future — they will think twice about giving first preference to the candidates promising the most blood, murder and mayhem. Of-course Hamas was promising to deliver more of those things to the Jews, rather than their own people, but it was a famous Jew who once said:

Oh, baby, that god you been prayin’ to
Is gonna give ya back what you’re wishin’ on someone else

The Palestinian people may only have had bad choices in the last election, but that doesn’t justify their making the worst possible choice.

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