[Southack]

Hamas can't handle a war. Even *before* the U.S. took out their moneyman in Iraq, Hamas was caught experimenting with remote-controlled model airplanes laced with explosives, a sure sign that suicide bombers are in short supply for them.

But now, they can't even count on overt threats from Syria and Iran to keep the IDF in check, as the U.S. Army in Iraq would LOVE to have that very sort of excuse to issue forth some record-setting payback for that little embassy incident in Tehran back in 1979, as well as the Beirut barracks bombing attack in 1983.

Thus, the IDF could physically expel every Palestinian if it comes down to that.

And it's been done before. Certainly no one in polite European circles condemned the King when Jordan expelled Arafat and a million Palestinians from that country back in their Black September of 1969.

So, like they are going to suddenly criticize Israel for copying Jordan's previous move?!

Thus, Hamas has *everything* to lose. It has no big moneyman any longer. It can't count on any help from Iran and Syria, either.

...And it certainly can't fight the IDF on the battlefield.

Now tell me again why Hamas thought it such a bright idea to blow GWB's Road Map?!

[Travis McGee]

"Hamas thought" implies that they are behaving rationally.

They are not.

They take their orders from the demon snakes running around in their brains courtesy of Mad Mo's insane murder cult.

[yonif]

Thus, Hamas has *everything* to lose. It has no big moneyman any longer. It can't count on any help from Iran and Syria, either.

Nope. I still believe lots of monetary funds are coming from Syria and Iran. Furthermore, the Bush administration has not described the PA as terrorist, simply coining the term against Hamas. What US doesn't understand is that the PA is a terrorist organization. Because of this ignorance, the US still is pushing Israel to negotiate with the PA - therefore negotiate with terrorists.