No Place To Start A Religion

All the apologists that say Hamas was elected because the people wanted a change or that they were choosing between the lesser of evils are diluting themselves. The Palestinians hate the Jews as much as the Jews hate the Palestinians. Hamas was elected in a landslide because anyone living in the desert is a loon! I don't know what, or why it happens but you can take an other-wise rational individual and put them in the desert and they go off the hook.

• If you are a Mormon and honestly believe that the Great Salt Lake area is "The Promised Land," you are full-tilt off your rocker.
  
• If you are a Jew in Israel and honestly believe it is "The Promised Land," you are buggier than a shit house rat.
  
• If you are an Arab in the Middle East and honestly believe it is "The Promised Land," you are as sharp as a marble.
  
• If you are any one of the hundreds of occupying forces (including the current US force) that has been to these desert areas and think you are going to "normalize" them, you are definitely wired to the moon.

Seriously! The desert is not the Promised Land. Someplace with workable soil, clean water, mountains, and maybe a mean temperature less than 800 billion degrees Kelvin would be closer to the Promised Land. The mountains of Switzerland, the area around Lake Cuomo, the Pyrenees, anyplace with sustainable means of surviving, besides killing people that don't look, act, or believe what you do would be preferable in my book; but maybe that is why god hates me. Apparently rational thought is not a part of the tenets of any religion originating in a desert land.