"it was not long ago that Israel's own terrorist's were blowing up the brits in the king Davids Hotel..... " Eh? 60 years ago, when they were fighting to create an independent state for the Jews, post the Holocaust, when they needed one. Hamas is fighting for the destruction of Israel. The PLO have at least accepted its existance, albeit tacitly and are willing to find a peaceful solution; this doesnt suit the Iranians and so they fund Hamas and so it goes.