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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0421/p08s02-comv.html
Five Minutes to Midnight for Hamas
(Christian Science Monitor) Editorial - The elected Hamas leaders in the Palestinian territories have further isolated themselves by unconscionably condoning Monday's suicide attack in Israel. Time is running out for this radical, anti-Israel Islamic group to come around. The financial squeeze that Europe, the U.S., and Israel have put on Hamas as a designated terrorist organization is already taking effect. Arab nations often fail to live up to their pledges to the Palestinians, and it's hard to imagine their limited donations as a substitute for the $1 billion which Europe and the U.S. are withholding. They rightly demand that Hamas recognize Israel, forswear violence, and abide by past Palestinian-Israeli agreements.