(American Enterprise Institute) Danielle Pletka - In the last week, Hamas has kidnapped two Israelis and killed one, while the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, affiliated with "moderate" Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, announced it could now manufacture chemical and biological weapons. Hamas and Fatah are terrorist organizations and they must be treated as terrorists, and crushed with all means necessary. They are no more entitled to violence than al-Qaeda. Foreign ministers from London, Washington, and Cairo have bleated that diplomacy must be given a chance, but President Bush has inveighed repeatedly against negotiating with terrorists. The writer is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI.
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