The test has been given...

...and Hamas failed.

The Hamas-led Palestinian Authority underscored the nature of their regime when they praised the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, calling the murder of at least nine civilians and the maiming of dozens "self defense"

So...this is how an internationally recognized government acts?  By sending people strapped with explosives into fast-food restaurants?  And how does our media report such an event?  By showing pictures of the murderer...and glossing over the murdered.

Interestingly, and despicably, the Yahoo! News photo slideshow has more than a dozen pictures of the suicide bomber and his family ahead of any of the victims. I gave up on the slideshow at picture 28 after at least half of them were of the dead terrorist or dead-terrorist wannabes signing up for jihad operations, presumably against more of those menacing falafel stands and pizzerias.

Surprisingly to me, Yahoo! News carried this story of the murders...

JERUSALEM - The deadly blast struck down a woman right in front of her husband and children. "The children screamed, 'Mom! Mom!' but she didn't answer, she was dead already," said Israel Yaakov, a witness to the carnage. He said the youngsters apparently suffered only slight physical injury.

Michelle and Charles both have links to extended coverage...as well as the graphic photo's of what happened.  When looking at some of these pictures...and then think of the children of the mother that was killed...think of what they had just witnessed.  And then remember what the government of the Palestinian people has said...and then think, 'are we just supposed to give up and let them rule the planet?'

The barbarians are at the gate...they need to be stopped.