(Globe and Mail-Canada) Editorial - The new deputy prime minister of the PA, Nasser Shaer, a leading member of Hamas, was all injured innocence when he learned that Canada was cutting off funding to his government: "What's going on?...Did we do anything?" Did we do anything, bleats Mr. Shaer? Only slaughter scores of innocent men, women, and children. What universe is he inhabiting that makes him think Ottawa will blithely hand millions of dollars to a government led by such a group? Let's be clear about this. No cause, however noble, justifies blowing up a carload of civilians. Nor can any right of resistance excuse the act of walking onto a bus full of commuters and eviscerating them with a bomb packed with nails.
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