Twitter Suspends Hamas Account Because Terrorism Sucks

hamas-twitter-161112ICYMI over the weekend, Twitter was busy “God Blessing America” when it suspended the microblog account for Hamas, the Palestine terrorist group opposing Israel and all that implies.

According to the linked story from the New York Times, “the blockaded Palestinian territory ruled by Hamas, the Islamist militants used their now-suspended @AlqassamBrigade Twitter account to reply directly to messages from @IDFSpokesperson, the official account of the Israel Defense Forces.”

See there? DMs aren’t always a good thing, kids. To wit, you can imagine the happiness from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) when this news broke internationally.

In fashionable fun, they tweeted the news…

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