I Dunno Patterico, maybe you're right but ...

The Kosovo Liberation Army was "branded a terrorist organization" before it became our ally in the latest step of the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. Now, probably no one as nuts as Milosevic will get control of the Israeli government and we will not see the ethnic cleansing that we saw in Kosovo. But I don't believe for a moment that Hamas is not hoping that it will provoke, through its terrorist acts, an over-reaction from Israel that will turn the world against Israel and on the side of the Palestinians.