Telegraph of UK Writes Twisted Logic

I was getting ready to log off when this headline caught my eye:

In the Middle East, murder is sometimes a reason for hope

Wow! That one is new! One of the lowest acts that a human could do is a reason for hope! Let's see what the author, Mr. Richard Spencer, has to say:

I have never been much of an optimist over the Middle East peace talks. Apart from the transient appearance of an accord in 1993, most rounds of negotiation seem to have been mere shows, undertaken for short-term political gains by one or other of the parties (including the Americans).

The Camp David discussions in the dying days of the Clinton presidency are the exception that proves the rule. Ehud Barak was unable to come up with concessions that the Palestinians could accept, for various reasons, some valid, some less so. And it is hard to see how any of Barak’s successors, least of all Benjamin Netanyahu, was ever, or is now, going to go even as far as he did. A negotiation that – so Mr Netanyahu says – cannot address the fate of East Jerusalem and must accept Israel as an entity solely defined by an ethnicity not shared by all its citizens is limited in its prospects.

 Alright, so a lot of fluff and gander, that meant absolutely nothing, takes up the first two paragraphs. But it's the third that shows how deluded this man, who is hailed as one of the Telegraph's correspondent to the Middle East, is.

Events of this week have, however, made me strangely more optimistic. There was something so brutal, even for Hamas, about its assassination of four civilian settlers, and more particularly the glee with which it claimed responsibility, that I wondered if it wasn’t seriously rattled.

 Really, so brutal about killing 4 civilians tha hamas is rattled? He obviously never saw the result of a suicide bombing, which attacks more than just 4 unarmed civilians, or for that matter, an earlier shooting of civilians or axing of civilians by those Arabs living in Israel. Not to mention, the lynching of, lost, off duty. reserve soldiers by the PA in 2000, where the soldiers' entrails were dragged through the streets; and the PA is the moderate government.

Also, when does glee ever go with seriously rattled?

He then continues to blah and blah. You can read it all here if you wish (I recommend you sit when you do.)

Thankfully the comments weren't as moronic (at least not at this time.):

Utter nonsense. Hamas is not "seriously rattled" at all. It is its standard operating practice to kill Israeli civilians at all times, and especially when peace talks are taking place. When Israel began its withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas committed several acts of vicious murder, the most heinous being the slaughter of Tali Hatuel - 9 months pregnant like this week's victim - and her 4 children by shooting them all dead at point blank range in their car. Hamas were not "serious rattled" then - indeed they were trying to promote a portrait of their victory, that it was their actions that had driven Israel out - and they are not "seriously rattled" now. 

The only thing that will seriously rattle Hamas is Israeli housing construction, especially in Judea and Samaria, which is why the construction freeze must end.

 Kudos, my dear sir, kudos.