The reactions I've been getting have been quite different. From the taxi driver whose views ran along the lines of Treppenwitz --now we know that we were wrong and they really do hate us and want us destroyed -- to the guys in my little grocery who shook their heads and said they had had so much hope for peace but now didn't think it would happen in their children's lifetime much less in their own (they are in their late twenties and early thirties), to several of my arab-Israeli friends who were by far more upset and rattled about this than the average Israeli I've talked to saying, "no one seems to really understand what this means, how bad this really is. Hamas is a fundamentalist Islamic movement and if people think they will eventually moderate along the lines of Fatah they are dreaming. No, they will become more and more fundamentalist over time and as they establish their position. This is very very bad." As She noted above, this seems to echo the view of a lot of the Arab bloggers like Haitham and a good number of the Jordanian bloggers I've been reading.