Hamas Comes in for the Big Win

Wow they really won a landslide victory .

Hamas won 76 seats in the 132-member parliament, while Fatah, which controlled Palestinian politics for four decades, won 43 seats, said Hanna Nasser, head of the Central Election commission. The 13 remaining seats went to several smaller parties and independents.

Now this really throws this whole thing into a whirlwind here. We have Iran threatening Israel then taking off the seals on the nuclear research, then Sharon getting a stroke, and now Hamas heading the government of Palestine.

Any peace plan may be dead as dirt now depending on what Hamas does:

"The state of Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian administration if even part of it is an armed terrorist organization calling for the destruction of the state of Israel," said Olmert's statement, issued after a three-hour emergency Cabinet meeting.

Hamas doesn't look to be backing away from the destruction of Israel pledge as well. Also they probably aren't going to disarm so what are the Israelis going to do? Are they going to back away from Palestine, negotiate with terrorist killers, or get hard line on them since. Any further attacks by Hamas is kind of like one government going after another. Especially if Hamas picks a Prime Minister and Fatah backs off from supporting them in a coalition government:

The biggest party in parliament can veto the president's choice of prime minister. Hamas called for immediate talks among factions to discuss a new government and Palestinian officials said President Mahmoud Abbas would ask Hamas to form one.

But Fatah leaders said they wanted no part in such a coalition -- a recipe for possible political paralysis.

Now it seems there will be a Mexican Standoff in the Middle East now. Will Hamas back down and renounce the destruction of Israel? They have to in order to join the international community and for any peace plan to go forward. And how will the Israelis react? These are some real crisis times for God's chosen people. The US needs to be sending Ehud Olmert some Alka Selzer in those Cosco size boxes because he is going to need them.