On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> And it can lead you into Yoshie Furuhashi-style apologetics for the Iranian,
>> Libyan, and Syrian regimes,
>>
>
> I must say that after hearing all kinds of histrionics from the breadth of
> our political spectrum about Hamas, then experiencing their government for
> myself, it's very hard not to be sympathetic to those kinds of apologetics.
> Chalk it up to the Westerner who cried "totalitarianism."
Hamas is not Assad or Qaddafi.