An opportunity for peace in the Mideast? Think again. Andy McCarthy points this out, from a piece in the Guardian on the Palestinian elections today:

“Yehiya Musa, the Hamas leader in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis, said: ‘The struggle with Israel is in stages. Each one is different. If Abu Mazen comes to us with proposals about how to deal with this stage, we will look at them very seriously.’”