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The art of UN doublespeak. The Palestinian UN observer says of the election of Hamas by the Palestinian people - an organization dedicated to the destruction of a UN member state - "the election results do not represent a departure from the positions and agreements signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority. This includes international and various Arab summit resolutions, the provisions of international law...the road map...and all the agreements signed with Israel." Trouble is, the Arab Terrorism Convention and the Terrorism Convention of the Organization of the Islamic Conference exclude "Peoples' struggle including armed struggle ...aimed at liberation and self-determination" from the definition of terrorism.