White House Blasts Hamas: "These people are nothing but thugs"

Be sure and read the entire article, it may be the last unabashedly pro-Israel sentiment we hear from the White House in a very long time.

The Bush administration, meanwhile, spoke out forcefully for Israel.

“These people are nothing but thugs, so Israel is going to defend its people against terrorists like Hamas that indiscriminately kill their own people,” said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “They need to stop. We have said in the past that they have a choice to make. You can’t have one foot in politics and one foot in terror.”