There's a great deal of disbelief and anger around the world at the news today that terrorist group Hamas has won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliamentary election held yesterday. But we prefer to look at the glass as half full - it's not like the other choice was much better. Fatah is after all also a terrorist organization, founded by terrorist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat.

As Ed Morrissey wrote:

It's not like the Palestinians gave themselves much in the way of choice for their first Parliamentary elections in ten years, but in a surprise, the hardline Hamas terrorists took a bigger slice of the vote from the more moderate terrorists of Fatah in today's vote.

The choice facing the Palestinian voters was essentially between a terrorist organization calling for the destruction of Israel, versus one that no longer admits that goal openly. So the news is bad, but it's not a huge shift. A majority of Palestinians want to annihilate Israel, and they've said so with their votes. The world needs to be honest about that fact and deal with it accordingly.

Michelle Malkin has a good reaction roundup. And some thoughtful comments from David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy.