26 January 2006
The Dilemma of the Palestinian Elections
The results of the acknowledged fair Palestinian elections announced on 26 January 2006 demonstrated the vacuity of the international interventionist policy professed by the neo-conservatives. After several revisions, it has been a major claim of the Bush Administration that its objective in Iraq is to establish democracy in the Middle East. Its ideologues have asserted that democracies do not support terrorism, and that imposition of a constitutional electoral process it would be sufficient to eliminate Iraq as a potential breeding ground for radical Islamist threats to American security.
Hamas were victors in spite of their use of terrorist tactics to destroy Israel. Were their anti-corruption and social services objectives more important to the Palestinian public than their anti-democratic violence? More likely, a majority of the Palestinian public is opposed to the existence of the Israeli state.
What a dilemma for liberal democracies in the West if democratically formed states in the Middle East act as terrorist agents in international affairs!
The results of the acknowledged fair Palestinian elections announced on 26 January 2006 demonstrated the vacuity of the international interventionist policy professed by the neo-conservatives. After several revisions, it has been a major claim of the Bush Administration that its objective in Iraq is to establish democracy in the Middle East. Its ideologues have asserted that democracies do not support terrorism, and that imposition of a constitutional electoral process it would be sufficient to eliminate Iraq as a potential breeding ground for radical Islamist threats to American security.
Hamas were victors in spite of their use of terrorist tactics to destroy Israel. Were their anti-corruption and social services objectives more important to the Palestinian public than their anti-democratic violence? More likely, a majority of the Palestinian public is opposed to the existence of the Israeli state.
What a dilemma for liberal democracies in the West if democratically formed states in the Middle East act as terrorist agents in international affairs!
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