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Engaged to Hamas

(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Last week's deal to bring Hamas into the Palestinian government means that a Palestinian leadership that lives off outside aid continues to think that hostile actions carry few consequences. And the West sounds willing to indulge them, fearing that any other response could jeopardize their near religious pursuit of the peace process. The terrorist group that's now confined to Gaza will have access to billions in foreign aid. There's no way for any donor or for Israel, which transfers customs and other receipts to the Palestinian Authority, to ensure that money won't be used by Hamas to launch more rockets on Israeli school buses. Hamas leader Khaled Meshal said on Sunday that Hamas may continue to fight Israel even after the formation of a Palestinian state. The Palestinians aren't going to get their state as long as their leaders include committed terrorists. Israel tried this route with Yasser Arafat in the 1993 Oslo accord, and Hamas was one result.

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