I think that piece about Hamas shows a bit of a double standard. We have worked with terrorist groups many times in our history. We recognized the government of Israel right after it was formed, even though it was composed to a large extent of terrorists who had killed a lot of people (including people working for the British government). We have worked with members of terrorist groups in Iraq who have become part of the government there. We fund and support in other ways, terrorist groups in countries like Iran and in parts of Latin America and other places. We have absolutely no problem getting in bed with terrorist groups when it is advantageous to our imperialist agenda, and we only condemn terrorist groups when it helps us accomplish our secondary agendas.