Hamas for the day

The New York Times has an almost-laughable article by Diaa Hadid and Majd al-Waheidi, entitled Hamas Commander, Accused of Theft and Gay Sex, Is Killed by His Own

The death of Mahmoud Ishtiwi, who was accused of homosexuality, had all the trappings of a soap opera: sex, torture, and embezzlement, in the armed wing of Hamas.

Rico says that all revolutions, according to Jacques Mallet du Pan, eventually eat their own:

 “The Revolution devours its children", originally appeared as A l'exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants in his widely circulated 1793 essay Considérations sur la nature de la Révolution de France, et sur les causes qui en prolongent la durée.