(Toronto Star) Lynda Hurst - Middle East scholar and former government policy adviser Yossi Olmert, speaking at the University of Toronto, was taken aback that so many in the Western media interpreted the surprise victory of the terrorist group Hamas in the Palestinian election in January as a protest vote against the crooked Fatah administration - "as if Hamas was a group of well-meaning social workers out to get rid of corruption." Do not for a moment think that Hamas is anything but a terrorist organization, Olmert said. "I believe what they say. And they say they don't want to make peace. So don't say to us, 'Why won't you talk to them?'" "Hamas was defeated roundly in the war of terrorism that began in 2000," said Olmert, "and will be beaten again if they resume that war."
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