Today, as the New York Times was trying to tell us that Hamas may “give peace a chance,” Hamas was doing this in the West Bank town of Nablus:

Thousands of people wave flags of the Islamic group Hamas as they surround a burning model of an Israeli army tank, during a rally to mark the 17th anniversary of the group’s foundation in the West Bank town of Nablus, Saturday Dec. 18, 2004.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me, but this doesn’t really look like the kind of thing peaceful people do.

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