I’ve been seeing the name — Vital Perspectives — around for a while. Two people? What are they, Flash and Kid Flash?

Anyway, go check out some of the posts on the results of the Hamas election. There’s the statement by the Quartet, and the one by Ehud Olmert on why Israel will not negotiate with Hamas, and this excellent quote on why Israel shouldn’t negotiate with Hamas.

Fellahs, consider yourselves blogrolled.

I’m showing my manager WordPress, whatever you do, make sure you mention that I always, always schedule my posts ahead of time, which is why some of them show up timestamped during the workweek.

No, I’m not kidding. I’m really going to show him WordPress.

Look, if you folks don’t want to vote, I don’t want to keep nagging you.

I should probably throw my votes somewhere else. The only reason I won last year was due to nag, nag, nag.

But you could at least go back and vote in the best post category, which was set back to zero by mistake and erased all of your votes. Which is why my showing sucks so much, I presume.

The AP on world reactions to the Hamas win.

PARIS (AP) - World leaders, uneasy at the prospect of a Hamas-led Palestinian government, immediately exerted pressure on the Islamic militants Thursday to recognize Israel and renounce violence as a precondition for ties.

France noted that the European Union lists Hamas as a terrorist organization, as does the United States. Italy said the militant group’s resounding - and surprising - victory in legislative elections Wednesday could indefinitely postpone any chance of Israeli-Palestinian peace and make the creation of a Palestinian state more difficult.

“It is a very, very, very bad result,” Italian news agencies quoted Premier Silvio Berlusconi as saying.

Concern crossed political divides, with traditional supporters of the Palestinian cause - such as Italy’s center-left opposition - among those expressing concern.

Gee, ya think?

“The whole of the international community has the responsibility to accept the outcome of any fair and democratic election,” said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. “But in this case Hamas has a clear responsibility to understand that with democracy goes a rejection of violence.”

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman was blunter: “We can only do business with people who renounce terrorism,” he said.

Israel, the United States and the European Union have said they would not deal with a government led by Hamas, which has carried out dozens of suicide bombings, seeks Israel’s destruction and has said that it opposes peace talks and will not disarm.

Freivalds, the Swedish minister, said the 25-nation EU will not be able to cooperate with Hamas unless it changes its policies. The French prime minister laid out what he described as “indispensable” conditions: Renouncing violence, accepting progress toward peace, recognizing Israel and recognizing international accords, notably the Oslo peace accords.

Here’s the biggest laugh of the article, though:

“It is obvious that the EU would never countenance funding a regime that continued an armed fight against Israel,” said Ignasi Guardans, a Spanish member of the European Parliament. “But we cannot push for democracy and then deny the result of free and fair elections.”

First off, refusing to recognize terrorists in a government is not denying the results of a democratic election. You recognize that they won. You simply refuse to deal with terrorists. However, I don’t expect the EU to stick to their current guns. You’ll be seeing pictures of the EU representatives having coffee with Hamas within the month.

Secondly: This quote is proof positive of the wilful blindness of the world regarding palestinian terror. They funded Yasser Arafat for decades. They were presented with the evidence of his involvement in terror. They ignored or denied it.

I said before that this is Ehud Olmert’s Harry Truman moment. It’s even more important than that. America wasn’t facing an existential threat when Roosevelt died. The war in Europe was in the mop-up stage. The war with Japan was in its final stages.

Israel’s war with the Arab and Muslim world is ongoing. Most of the Arab world has never recognized Israel. Syria is still at war with her. Lebanon has thousands of Iranian proxy troops waiting for the order to invade. And Iran’s president has stated many times in the past months that he wants to rid the world of Israel.

This is the opportunity for the world to step up and stand with Israel against those who would destroy her.

I’m not holding out a lot of hope for that right now, judging on the past. Every time the world has the chance to destroy Jews or save them, it always chooses the former.

The difference this time, of course, is that the Jews are armed. And dangerous.

World leaders are saying — now — that Hamas must disarm.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged Hamas to renounce violence and recognize Israel following its success in the Palestinian legislative elections.

“Hamas has to understand that with democracy goes renunciation of violence,” Straw said on a visit to the Turkish capital.

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Those nutjobs who think that Armageddon is upon us must be very happy today. Hamas is Israel’s new non-negotiating partner in the PA.

And Hamas has re-issued the three no’s: No peace with Israel, no negotiations, no recognition.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when Israel assassinates a Hamas legilsator for taking part in suicide attacks.

This is a test for the entire world, to see if they really mean it about terrorists.

I give them a week before they try to push Israel into negotiating with Hamas.

Notice anything familiar in this AP photo of a Hamas rally?

Kinda looks like this, doesn’t it?

Yes, these are the people that the world thinks Israel will have to deal with after the upcoming palestinian elections. No Jew-haters here. Nope. None at all.