Wednesday's Irish Times carries an informative piece by Rory Miller on the evolution of relations between the European Union and Hamas. Pivotal to the deterioration in these, Miller says, was Hamas's violent overthrow of Fatah in Gaza in June 2007. (Thanks: TC.)
Further to that and further to the question I raised here, Hamas sympathizers from afar who like to emphasize the organization's democratic credentials might like to think about the allegations of torture and reprisal killings, aka summary executions, currently being made against it. We know that torture is objectionable when practised at Guantanamo. Is that because it's torture, or only because of who's doing it?