J2 have you had the Operation Breakfast (etc.,) therapy yet?
Not sure if this deserves a separate thread but the election of Hammas has thrown an interesting spanner into the works of ME politics.
If things were not complicated enough already.
I did, however, see an interesting thing on Hammas before the election, based in one of the towns they had already won at a local level. They apparently have proved very organised at the prosaic ... like putting road repairs out to competitive tender rather than giving to the brother of the Fatah mayor as used to be the case. It would appear that the vote of confidence by the Palestinians is largely based on a desire for good governance rather than some holy war.
It will be interesting to see what comes of it ...
balanced budget or bloodshed (or both? as was said of Mussolini - he made the trains run on time)
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