Mr. Hannity: Yasser Arafat was an "evil actor" (p. 192), "the oldest terrorist" (p. 127).

As the terrorist group Hamas swept 76 of 132 seats in Wednesday's Palestinian legislative elections, the fingernails of extremism ground their way mockingly across the blackboard of Democracy -- the world aghast.

But the shock wasn't shared by everybody. Over a half million Palestinians actually voted to put these people in power.

What drove them to show such widespread support for a group so widely regarded as a bloodthirsty, cowardly gang of terrorists?

Simple. Those who voted for Hamas don't see them as terrorists. That's why they voted to give a stiff middle finger to those of us who do.