From: "Phil Payne" 

> Still seems to me you are confusing accepting that an
> election was valid and the government is elected legitimately and deciding
> to support financially the elected government. Show me where the US has
> questioned the legitimacy of the election of Hamas?  No elected government
> automatically must be provided foreign aid because they were elected.
> There are consequences to elections. Especially for a Government that many
> including much of the US and Europe consider a terrorist organization.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5290106.stm

"Lady Thatcher would not back sanctions in the 1980s, calling Nelson
Mandela's African National Congress terrorists.

Mr Cameron met the former South African president in South Africa last week.

He called him "one of the greatest men alive" and said he had
learned lessons from him."

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